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BASEBALL AND THE TURF ARE
THE LEADING FEATURES AT
THIS TIME
ORPHANS DOING GOOD WORK
Hart Offers Rich Prize to His
Boys If They VIII Only
Win the PEN
nant.

terest which the great national game and
sport of kings have excited and also
speak well of their success.
The National League club in this city
has certainly been the cause for wonder
among the baseball fans the country over,
for the showing made against the cham
| pions from lover the bridge and the
Quakers in the recent series of games
here was astonishing.
When the Chicago club went East for
its last series it certainly had few friends
at home, but more on the circuit, for the
/ Eastern clubs expected that the pie
diskeG up for them would be of material
aid in fattening their averages before
making the Western trip. Playing in
hard luck and worse team work The
Orphans were left to their own resources,
! the local fans transferred thetl
allegiance to the American association
team that had gained the lead in the
minor league by a plucky squirt and good
managerial ability of Comiskey
To the surprise of everybody, while the
team was rather crippled by the loss CT
! Camel, who suffered from a heat stroke,
and RYAN whose back was spraired, the
Orphans upon their return suddenly be-
gan to play ball" Three straight from
Brooklyn and four from Philadelphia
was the way they started and the Chi
cage team won not only by good pitching
but by GOOD team playing as well. UNI
| pire Tim Hurst was quite as attentive
to the Rroohlyns as all reports from the
; East indicated, and in every close decis-
ion Chicago mer found they were playing
against team of ten visitors The Smal:
scores were feature of the series and the
shutouts for both the visiting aggrega-
tons of sluggers remarkable.
BETTER THAN BROOKLYN
1t might sound like pipe" story to
say that in the return of Mccormick to
short and Bradley tc third base with
! Childs at second, the local trio
was even stronger in fielding than
the great but unreliable Dahlen,
Daily and Cross, of Brooklyn, but
such was proven to be fact in the
three games played here and 1t will
probably be found at the end of the sea-
son that the Chicago infield is every
whit as strong as that of the Champions
and | believe the locals to be far more
promising from the showing made in re-
cent games.
Bradley was a very promising player
| last season, but early this year he got
bad start and it is only recently that
| he has settled down again and Is now
playing giltedged ball. Mccormick has
played at short before and he is field
ing beautifully, being shifty in covering a
! wide territory and having quick recov-
cry and jerky throw to snap the ball over
! to first bag. Child's is a veteran, and,
besides being a level-headed player, he is
a good waiter for called balls. Few men
in the whole game get a free pass down
as often as the fat guardian of second
l base, and his tub-like dimensions are a
source of discomfort to the pitchers who
are unable to gauge a ball for line on
the seven-inch latitude between his
shoulder and knee, for he is not only
short and of stubby growth, but nearly
as big in diameter as in height.
Of the other players in the Chicago
team, the pitching corps is greatly
strengthened by Garvin, the tall and
| lanEy Texan, with ladylike movements.
But he has an arm like steel, and the
| bail is driven across the plate with bull
let speed or in-curves that would give a
boozer the jimjams. [ do not know a
more promising pitcher in the league
than young Virgil Garvin, and he will
lead the whole procession when the re-
turns are footed up next season-mark
the prediction. Griffith, Callahan, Taylor,
! Cunningham, who pitched and won his
first game, with Philadelphia Wednesday,
| and Menefee make up a corps of pitchers
unequaled in the league.
CAMEL IS A PRIZE.
Camel was a prize and when he is able
| to return to first base he NAV be able to
hit the ball up to his former batting av-
erage. AS fielder he is very promising.
His return will send Mertes back to CEN
ter field, which position he seems to I'LL
nearly as well as LANCE. Mertes leads
the team in batting, and during the alb
sence of Camel showed that he was d
| valuable utility man
Mccarthy is doing well in left field,
to which point Ryan was assigned, large
ly for the reason that Green did not take
to the sun balls kindly. Mccarthy has
no trouble, and many think he is even
more certain of such flies than the relia-
BILE Jimmy, who goes back to right field
which position he played for years under
Arson Green has not been batting UP to
his record, but his hitting has been of the
| hard-hitting sort.
The catching staff is strong, with Don
ahue the only ct" Nichols. Dexter and
Chance, the latter having about recover
ed from a recent injury in being spiked
at the plate.
Taken all through the Chicago team,
while not crack-a-jack organization in
the sense Of brilliant Individual PLAYERS.
is strong team of baseball workers-the
sort that plays all the season and gets
the rag when the final game has been
played.
HART OFFERS RICH PRIZE.
President James A. Hart has made the
following offer to his team If it wins
the pennant:
Here is my offer to the members of the
Chicago National League Baseball club
as an inducement to them to keep VI
their splendid pace. If they should win
the pennant-and there is no reason WHY
they should not if they can retain their
present form-I will agree to raise a
purse of $4,000 to be divided among the
members of the club at the end of the
season.
Chicago fans would willing patronize a
testimonial benefit at which one dollar
admission could be charged, and this
would net over $4,000. The league man.
agement will contribute $1,000 additional
to this sum, the money to be divided
share and share alike among the PLAYERS
This would be $500 to 81, 900 a man. Is
this not prize worth working for?
think 1t is.
There is not so much difference amona
the players as there is difference In CON
f1dence. If the Chicago players will work
! with judgment, energy, and at all times