Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-02
Value Of Baseball Players
TOLD BY TIM SULLIVAN
AS Gagged by Their Nationality

Tim sullivan. the well known sports
man. was asked by a friend recently as
to the different nationalities In base
ball. He Contended II was a cosmopOli-
tan crowd, true American game ir
every way and asked Sullivan to write
an article on the game its players and
the nationalities of the various mer
who earn their living by catering to
the likes and dislikes of thousands on
ball diamonds from Maine to Califor-
mia. Sullivan accepted the task and the
following interesting article appeared
in the Sporting News of st. Louis in its
| last issue:
German Players Prominent.
First. we will take the sturdy Ger
mans, whose percentage in the Ameri-
can sport is one of the largest. The
German extraction Is as reliable on the
ball field as was their great ancestor.
Butcher, who told Wellington that he
would come to his aid at Waterloo, q
battle the Germans won, but the En-
glish 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 Dab.
len, Burkett Wagner, Selbach, BreI'
tenstein, Schreckengost, Hahn. Beck,
ley, PETIT. Hartsell Lowe and Lange
and many other stars who are a credit
to that race. No man should be-
ashamed. of his lineage; II he is, he /:
M unnI nth
have had all nationalities play fol
me in my many years in baseball anC
cannot say too much in praise of th'
Germans.
There are very few Swedes and Nor
weglans in the game, but it is whis
pered up In Minnesota that Patterson
struck out the letter + and added on,
T and inserted the letter A in his name
OF course. this may be only joke. The
Swedes and Norwegians are an athleti,
people and will. in time give to thu
national game a fair percentage O
their race.
Hebrews Love Sport.
That spOrt-loving people. the He
brews, who are today the shameless
supporters of the national game wa
represented one time by one of tn,
premier batsmen of America, in tn,
person OF Lip Pike OF Brooklyn, whit
at that time on the old Chicago LAX,
front grounds lwhen Pike was will
CinCinnatD, put the ball four time
over the fence amongst the Burlington
freight cars. The few other Hebrews
are Stein and Mathewson (steln) o
New York. Mathewson is a great maj
and all the ball experts know II.
The Italians have not sole repre-
sentative on the ball field / know OF
but they will get there as they have al
ready SHE'D their castor in the prlz,
ring.
The Poles up in Milwaukee wer,
about to claim Charles Comlnskey. II
his maiden effort in professional base
ball. with the writer. Charley was yer!
young then, but the Poles went to tn,
expense of getting up banquet TO
their supposed gallant young country
man, and intended to surprise him 4
committee came to me and asked me Il
bring Charley up, but TO their horrO
and chagrln | told them that Charley
father was one OF those highly educated
and refined Irishmen from Count,
Clare, Ireland, and that Charley wa
born in Chicago. Poor fellows! The!
left with a heavy heart to think thei
idol belonged to the Irish race. Blu
the Poles will be there yet.
The Hungarian race is represente,
by Skopec.
Negroes Warm Babies.
The American negroes that wer,
stolen out of Africa by Dutch trader
IN 1900 are in the game, but are barred
on the grounds Of racial inferiority, ar,
warm bees" amongst themselves, an,
the hottest Cinders that ever few on
of a human smokestack are thos,
warm babies" the Cuban Giants o
New York and the Columbias of Chi
cagO. When they play on the Chicago
prairies, no grass has to be cut, as II
their practice hour they are so warn