The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-17
A DEFICIT IN PRIZE MONEY
BILL HULEN IS STILL a STAR.
BACK EAST.
Big Bill Lange's Base Running
Continues TO Be the Wonder
OF AL Baseball
dom
By doe Corbett.


up his mind TO resign as treasurer OF the
Pacific Coast League has turned out 20
be false. II anything, Jack is more in
terested than ever. At Monday night
meeting he manifested an unusual amount
OF interest in discussing the prize money
which IS 70 become the property OF the
club fortunate enough 10 finish first IN
the league race II appears THAI a. the
clubs have not contributed their share OF
this prize money in full, and Bonnet is
greatly chagrined over IT, He is very de-
SiroUs Of having everything in 6rst-cIaSs
shape before the season closes, and those
clubs which are deficient should settle up
and ease the mind of Mr. Bonnet and also
OF the players With all the money that
has been made this season, 1 cannot see
how any Of the teams could complain
about keeping their promise regarding
this important issue OF course. when 4
manager lets little thing ike ~ Per
cent of each game run On for weeks II
adds up, and finally becomes quite sum
And then, as IS generally the case, big
payments are more difficult 10 make than
small ones. To prevent the amount be-
coming too large, I would suggest for the
second time, that this question, which
has caused some little comment De
patched up L is 50 much nicer 10 know
that everything is done N acceptance
with promise and agreement ms Is
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Billy" Hulen. the popular Californian
has Just finished another successful sea-
son with the Columbus team OF the " eS[-
eru League. Though ne did not n1LSn
first in the fielding, he may De eiasSe0 as
the best sh0Ftst0p n the league, Tor n
al the other departments OF the game he
easily 0utCIassCd his opponents. Alien.
who was with the BosLols IN u, Is the
only sh0rtstop who attained any ma
in all other respects his average suffers
greatly when compared Win IA4t d
HIIIen was given q tria- by the PhilaL-
deIphfa Club two years ago, but had the
misfortune 70 figure N most serious
accident, in which TWO ribs were
broken Up 10 this time his work was
superb. and much space was given 4iIn
by most Of the Eastern Journals MIS-
fortune seemed TO follow rnlSIorLuhe'
however, for his work LOST It's slPeEoacss;
owing TO the results OF the accident and
as a consequence he was released After
q rest he began anew with me ColuILl99s
Club last season. and from his record II
may be said that Il given another clalce
in the big league e would remain lLeEe-
capped Ike HuIeu and has some pack
WONDERS and Bill. I Eeel. would do
likewise If given the opportunity
Big Bill Lange's excellent exhibition
OF bzSe-runniuz at last Sundays game at
ReCrea ton Park IS still the wonder OF the
baseball world, or rather OF this. portion
OF basebaIIdom- Bill simply outdid him
self for I must say that while have
seen him run bases on many an OCCASION
his late exhibition was the result q ms
best efforts and was. therefore, MS nneSt
work 7 trust the players who OarUIet-
pared in that game watched him closely
No player could have given more IN
will be some time before the public re-
ceives another such treat Langes method
OF avoiding a baseman Il perfect
Base-running does not consist simply IN
4 man being able 10 run fast Il IS IN the
slide. as was demonstrated by LANCE
that the real art and science assert
ner IN the National League to-day and
YOU will find that they are expert sliders-
Some Of them are pretty good runners
and some are very ordinary IN TINS re-
spect- yet they can all slide perfectly. and
il IS in this last attempt 20 pllIer q odSe
that the real issue presents itself Every
time IanEe ATTEMPTED To steal base
save once the ball was there before him,
vet each time he succeeded IN eYaG1ng the
basenan- The slide did 1t. and this par
ticuIaT slide should De pracuced In facl
there IS but one way 10 make q slide
when the haseman has the ball, and It
may be executed by throwing the body
away from the bag ana touching 10 either
with the hand or foot With practice this
method becomes quite easy, and players
like LANCE experience no more dlfncqlry
In cIing7ng TO q base with their foot tha1
thew % with their hand. II Lauge has
mastered this art others can do so, but It
requires practice, like everything else IN
baseball
Lou Hardie came to bat in last Sun
days game with q man on first and one
on second. The score at the time was
10 against his side, and the opposing
pitcher was simply tuvtucibIe- Lou how
ever instead Of advancing these runners
by a hunt or sacrifice, did what g less
experienced amateur would do, tried 20
knock the ball fifteen miles The result
of his dream ended in a double play and
nearly 4 triple. and a chance TO make
good rally thrown away. I have eXpa-
tfated on this point so many different
times that I really tire when touching it
again However. when a man who has
played ball such a long time as Hardfs
commits those ofenseS which belong TO
the infant exclusively. ii is high time 10
call his attention 10 it. and TO assure him
that II IS time those who are supposed TO
know something about the game lived up
to their reputation Hardie's stupidity
was fnexcusa bic. If he cannot set a bet
ter example for the younger talent he
should retire 1t is TO players like him
self that the young element look for in
structfon and il they are to receive such
stupid instruction the game viii never
frnDTOVG.