The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-10
Baseball.

During his first year out ball player
is a good Indian, but after that, no mat
ter how good or how decompoSed his
work, he finds himself bothered by a
considerable enlargement of the brain
repository. After his first year he is a
real professional, and from that time on
he looks with sccfn upon the attempt of
the ''busher' to break into professional
company. No matter how modest the
professional player is you will always
find him busy planning new methods of
badgering the new man who is only try
ing to prove himself capable of earning
a salary check from the man who pays
the man who has had his first year out.
If the new man is a commonplace player
he gets it all through the season, but if
he promises to develop into star then
all is lovely, for the men are proud to be
playing with the man who can play the
game fast enough to attract attention.
did Christy Mathewson have as mich
speed IS Annie Rusie in the days OF his
greatness - was the query that Bug
Holiday put to Manager McPhee.
King Bid did not think that "Matty
eoGld whistle 'em through az fast as the
-Hoosier Thunderbolt once did and re-
marked to Bug:
DO you remember the l to 0 game we
won off Rusie III New York? You scored
the only run Rasie hit you in the Stats
and you stole second and third, scoring
on a passed ball
'"Fhat I do" declared the Bug.
TONY MulIane pitched for Cincinnati
When Rusie showed UP here in the
spring" continued MePhee, "he CIT bose
with speed enough to crack the boards in
the fences. We all thought he looked
good. That afternoon ne pitched against
New York l thought he was going to
drop dead on me- PerSpiration in drops
as big as walnuts fell off his brow ard
exploded all around him like terptdoes
on the Fourth. He couldn't eaten his
breath long enough to talk between in
nings, but had a please take me out
look in his eyes that was pitfuli
! In the American league Norman Elber-
field is rated king of shortstops. The
little fellow has played marvellous ball
as a Wolverine and won the plaudits of
as great a judge of diamond talent as
Frank Selee, yet he failed twice in the
! National league. Philadelphiars and Gin
cinnatians could hardly indorse the
American League verdict. The
Watkins theory is not a half bad one,
and accounts for many a hzzle in the
great crops of disappointments that are
harvested every season.
Napoleon Lajoie, of the Philadelphia
American league team, performed one of
the greatest featS on record during a
game at Memphis, Tenn, on Oct 20.
Lajoie swung at the ball in a terrific
| manner and landed fair and square. To
the surprise of every body two balls ap-
peared to fly off his bat. The felders
Were nonplussed for a moment, and it
was discovered that Iaajeie had actually
broken the ball in half. sOne-haf of the
| ball Was picked up in fair ground and the
other in foul territory. Fhe umpire de-
clared the ball foul.
Manager Hanlen said when he let Jen-
nings go that he was all in as a bats
man. Hanlon has Utilized the fact that
good student soon becomes poor
batsmar. Duffy was wonderful bats
man until he sat up. nights with his
books. when his eyes grew weak, and
from being the finest batsman in the
country he becamcAa weak one. Jen-
nings and others have shown what read
ing by lamps and other night lights will
do for the batting eye The Boston club
Will request young Carney, the new
Tightfeldcr 10 go slow with his night
work at a medical school this winter.
The batting eye is certainly affected by
too much study by night
Willie Pruden Chase will be missed By
the fanatics and bali players of the East
ern league Chase was a drawing az
traction all by himself. At Des Moines.
when an excited little Individual started