Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-10
New Baseball Scheme Conceived
by Irrepressible Ted
Sullivan.
IS ANXIOUS FOR A CONTEST
Between Teams Representing the
Two Nationalities-Dia-
mOnd Notes.

which is nothing more or less than n
contest getween Irish and German
ball players. This is what he has to
say concerning nationalities in base
ball:
First, we Will take the sturdy Ger
mans, whose percentage in the Amer
lean sport is one of the largest The
German extraction is as reliable on
the ball field as was their great an
cestor, Butcher, who told Wellington
that he would come to his aid at
! Waterloo, a battle that German won
but the English claimed. Some of
our greatest diamond heroes are of
German lineage.
Even Buck Ewing, who was one of
the greatest players that ever lived,
was of German blood. Today we have
Dahlen, Burkett. Wagner. Setback,
Breitenstein, Hahn, Beckley, PETIT,
HartZell, Lowe and Lange. and many
other stars who are credit to that
race. No man should he ashamed of
his lineage; if he is, he is no good.
one way or the other. | have had all
nationalities play for me in my many
years in baseball and | can not say
too much in praise of the Germans.
THE last, but not least, in Ameri-
cas- great game is the Celt-4the Mile
sion, the Irish lineage. Have Il care,
Mr.. sullivan YOU say, we know that
is your blood and you must not put
on an extra daub of paint Well, /
will see how impartial | can be.
Qualities Shown.
THE very same impetuosity and
dash that made the Irish brigade at
Fonteney (when they fought on the
French side) cut the English to
pieces and routed them, the very
same abandon and dash they showed
at Fredericksburg in the war of the
rebellion. are in n lesser degree cX-
emplified in the dashing base-run-
ming of the game, past and present
namely Mike Kelly, Jim Fogarty.
Charles Comiskey, John Ward, Curt
Welch. Tom Mccarthy. Hugh Duffy,
Hugh Jennings, Joe Kelley. Billy
Keller, John McGraw, Jack Doyle
and many others that can be enum-
Grated of the. same extraction.
1.-The same qualities that made
Montgomery. Sullivan and Wayne, of
the revolution. leaders. and Sheridan.
Shields, Kearney, Reynolds, Logan,
Stonewall Jackson. Stewart Forest
and Pat CIeburne, of the American
civel war. in a lesser degree, have
made leaders in baseball out of Han
lon. of Brooklyn. Comiskey, of Chi
cago. Mack. of Philadelphia, LOTUS.
of Washington, Donovan. of st.
Louis, Clark. of Pittsburg, Delehanty,
captain of Philadelphia (NationaD,
McGraw, of Baltimore, and McAleer.
of St. Louis. The Irish, to their
credit, are materially leaders.
Whether i'm the crisis of 4 battlefield
or in the long-shooting turning point
in game of ball, their minds clear
up, and in the confusion of their OPP
ponents the weak point is seen.
by intuition (Which is the heaven
ly spark of genius) they strike as
quick as lightning itself the weak
spot of their opponents. Those are |
the qualities of the Irish in crucial |
contest.
Would Settle Dispute.
There has been a disputed point |
for years amongst the friends of the |
Irish and Germans as to which of |
the two (?) nationalities has the |
better players. This has been dis |
puted point and ii could be easily |
SGIlleu
in England-have n grand interna-
tional match as at the end of the |
English football season. Both the |
Irish and Germans have great stars |
in the ball field and nothing would |
draw better at the end of the sea
son than series of games between
the two leading extractions on the |
ball field.
81 would suggest that two teams /
be made up at the end of the playing |
season to contest n series of seven /
or five games, the one winning four
out of seven or three out of 1--WE be
decided the winner. | would also
suggest that two out of three years
should forever decide the superiority
of both eXtractions. The success OF
one year would not be a fair test, as
one team might have nttle luck
over the other in the way of players
''Then again, do not wish for any
one to imply that there is covert
satire of irony in the suggestion OF
two or three years, because in Great
Britain years ago there was limit
in age of the youth at 21 to pass eX-
animation for civil service. There
was more Irish passing at that age
than the Scotch or English, so the
law was amended to defer the time
of the age to "a to give the Scotch
and English time to think. Some
evil minded person might think my
suggestion of two or three years to
be an affront to the Germans. Not
at all. There is no similarity in the
two vocations. l would suggest the
following teams:
The German Team
"Germans-Pietz, thinner and Bue-
low, Hahn, StimmeI, Roscoe, Miller,
Katoll, Husting, of Milwaukee.
Chech, of ST. Paul, and few others
in the National league L cannot re-