Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-16
DISCIPLINE IN
NATIONAL GAME.
What a Famous Authority on
Baseball Has to Say
OF Ii.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Much Of What Murnaue Says is Ap.
plieable to the Salt Lake Team at
The Present Time.

The following article by Tim MUIR
name, an authority on baseball as wide
BY recognized as any IN this broad land
OF ours, Is particularly timely. and APP
plies as much TO our team in Salt Lake
as 1t does to the big mines mentioned.
Discipline-thats the word, 1t means
lot in any line Of business, but mo-
where more than IN baseball
There was time when ball clubs
travelled over this broad land OF ours
ignoring the rules OF health and all
anxious to be called good fellows"
Perhaps the most conspicuous lot of
good fellows ever under one banner
hailed from Chicago in the early SOS,
and we We're headed by Captain Arson.
While this crowd was ever ready to at
tend banquets and have a good time,
It never lost sight OF the fact that An
son knew his business and was an easy
mark only while they were putting up
winning ball.
There was the ever-jolly Mike Kelley,
the blg-hearted Ned Williamson, Fred
Prefer, the swell dresser; conslderatc
Tom Burns, good-natured silver
Flint, Witty and handsome Fred Gold
smith, wise Corcoran, George Gore,
the mixer" Jimmie Ryan. always
there with his Joke, and the aggressive
Arson making n combination that
won the hearts Of the sports and played
bah with more grace and knowledge of
the game than any team before or
since.
10 the casual observer this team
looked Ike a picked nine when ON the
Held as every man knew his place and
was never lost for the want OF coach
ms In fact coaching was not necos-
sary Where men depend on coaching
they are never top-notch teams only
the SLOW thinker needs coaching, and
he f. out of place IN winning combine
ton. Captain Arson had his team
under strict discipline. and each day
found The regular members Of the team
nc work Arson 10y the way, was the
FIRST 90 alternate pitchers, and either
Norcoran or Goldsmith was there for
his best work, while the men behind the
pitchers knew every bail that was to
be delivered. Can you beat that at
the present time? think not.
The players would Joke with their
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idollsed HE leader Though coon for
getting the game when out Of uniform.
While on the field they We're attending
strictly to business No man was ak.
lowed TO shlrk for a second
Great respect and confidence In their
leader made the 81 Louis browns n
great combination about this time or
little later OF the field the browns
were not paper but when IN uni
FORM and the electric current turned on
oy 'Ccmy' there was team under
iull discipline. Not n player would
dispute the judgment Of the man in
charge
Frank selee and Ned Hamlon have
Fuoceeded under like circumstances.
FRED Clarke has worked the saline com
plnation I'm Pittsburg. and Connie Mack
mas followed suit with hts quaker
bunch This year John MeGraW has
the rcins taut with his New York el-
ANS ana discipline II conspicuous
umong a lot " players who have IN
'ne PAST had their own way too often.
n box ~ oranges VIII soon spon II
one hnd one is allowed to remain and
one diagruntled ball player can dls-
lupt Il good ball team Manager se-
we uBufed ON this when he allowed
a hne player TO 20 last Winter. selee
N an absolute believer IN the rule that
team must pull together
Now we come TO Jimmie" Colllns OF
ihe Boston club, The young PLAYERS
ne encourages In every way III no inda
they have the stun IN them, as he ana
WIN Parent and Ferris lie expects
respect at every turn, and once player
ohaies under fair treatment Collins
STARTS to thinking "a bad example