Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-04

ton often put TO me- am compelled TO
reply I'm the negative. The players OF
10 and 10 years ago were just az fast
tricky and well up IN the game as those
OF today. ola tricks are being con-
stantly brought out and lots Of people
think they are new but 1t would be all
most an impossIbiity TO spring an alb
s0lutcly new play on the diamond to-
day. And besides. in those days there
was no senseIess kicking, such as al
most every game ls burlenqd with now,
although the players were just as ag-
gr,ssIye and anxious TO- win
Baseball nowadays is played proba-
bly, more scientifically than ever be-
fore, especially this season, since tho
reduction in the major league has made
those teams SO much stronger AS a
matter of fact ! think this scientific
playing is being carried too far There
is too much bunting done. What the
spectators want 20 see Is lots OF hitting
and running. and as they make the
games o. possibility their wishes should
Dee respected There are lots OF battors
who can put their sticks ia front Of the
BAN and bunt o. but what we want Is
to develop more hard hitters like the
players ON the Philadelphia team.
Years ago the ball used to have two
and oue-haf ounces Of rubber In t.
whereas now there is only one ounce.
This reduction has made the sphere less
lively and consequently easier 90 field
10 has also lossaued the number OF OUT
field hits The men are also now har-
messed almost like football players
with gloves. pads. masks and other
parlpheualIa. We hadn't these ac-
oessoues ln the old days yet / don't
think the fielding is much improved.
IN any change Doe made I'm the pitch-
ing distance agaiu,it should be 90 reduce
g. 1.-THE pitchers had TO throw the ban
five feet less &c would take an immense
strain of their arms. AS a result q club
instead of having eight or nine pitchers
ON lts pay roll would De able to get
along Just as well with four or five.
one Of the chief factors In Keeping
baseball up TO Dos high standard is
that everybody knows that the game Is
absolutely on the square You never
hear OF @ man making a book on a
baseball game as they do on the race
tracks. Both men have an equal chance
TO win q baseball bet, and there's no
"porcentage for The house In crooked
games Away back In the seventies
there was some betting done, but It re-
suited In such dissatisfaction and talk
OF thrown games that the practice has
never been revived
when ] was manager Of the Louis
Vile club, / had four men Of my own
team-Hau Caver. Nichols and Devlin
put out of the League because they
were caught throwing a game That
was the first time such a thing had ever
occurred aud IL caused a great sensa-
ton az the time.
was once asked to put a club ia
the Polo grounds at New York but re-
fused thinking there was no money In
II. jim Mutre then took up the fran
chise and got John b. Day, now chief Of
umpires and two others TO 80 In with
him. The owners split up $4,000 be-
tween them as the profits Of one sea-
son two years later What difference
between that sum ana the losses that
the New York club win have to stand
al the end OF the present SUMMER
what the Giants need Is TO have a
capable manager at their head, one who
Is not a player, because a man can con-
troll a team much better from the
bench. He should have entire liberty
TO buy what players he needs and make
what changes he thinks are best, In
fact, he should have entire control Of
the team, without which the Giants
viii never be successful. II that were
| done. baseball would boom IN New
York, and the result would be very benz
cdcial an over the country. am afraid
I It viii not be done, however, while the
president now az the head has anything
TO do with the club. Whether Mr.
Freedman understands the game or not
] don't know, as l have never had the
pleasure OF meeting him, but / Judge
not from the way things have been
conducted IN the New York club for the
past few years
The recent death Of William Barnle
/ has deprived baseball Of one OF the
best men the game ever had. lie has