The Washington times., 1905-03-19

There is at least one crack pitcher who
admits that he has not discovered any
new tangled curves. Deacon" Philippe
of the Pittsburgs is the man, and he
says:
Il have heard SO much about the fade
away the stop and other fakes that
l have reached the conclusion that lit
tie old-fashioned pitching will be just as
effective as anything else this year. All
/ hope is that I have command of my
old delivery. did not have 1t last year,
for caught cold in the spring and the
race was nearly over when I recov-
cred my health. 1 do not believe the
spit ball will be sd effective this sea-
SON. So many pitchers are using it that
the batsmen will soon find a way to beat
it. Fred Clarke has theory about hit
ting it. and will have the Pittsburgs
practice it. at Hot Springs.
Hugh Jennings, attorney at law and
manager of the Baltimore baseball team.
Is an enemy to the practice of teams
advancing money to their players and
has taken stand against It.
1T Is worth considering" said he,
that baseball Is the only profession in
which the man insists upon collecting
compensation before earned. So gen
eral has become the custom of request
ing and receiving advance money in the
late winter months that the ball player
and manager have come to recognize 1t
as unwritten law. Please let me have
q hundred or so OF my first month sal
ary.' writes the player He gets ii, and
perhaps another, SO that il is rare now
that ne begins to earn his first month S
salary before Il is entirely spent
"Rubc waddeu narrowly escaped get
ting killed in football game at Phila-
delphia one time" said Lave Cross to
the tanning bench in Lajoie's back room.
"Rube Is just as daffy in a football
game as in baseball He is very rough,
and when playing opposite a smaller man
he is mean. He went after l3o-pound
player in Philadelphia so roughly that
he broke the fellows leg
The Others on the opposing team
went after Rube and gave MIN gruei-
ing that made him sick. Finally the big
fellow saw that he was UP against II
and quit dead cold.
'.If he had stayed in the game much
longer they would have killed INN sure re.
p'Tis too bad he is such crazy beg
gar" said Larry He'd be the greatest
pitcher of the bunch If he could only be
controlled.
Tim Hurst told story on himself at
the baseball meetings that, while not
new to some, will bear repeating.
Young minor Lacquer had come into the
National League with n fare of trum-
pets. and Tim waS, the umpire OF the
Youngsters first game.
Everything seemed to go wrong with
the minor that day; he was either
too far out or too far in. playing the
outfield. and ne made no showing al
the bat The next day, however, he
started off with swinging mt ana Ioi-
lowed it UP with two more HIS courage
was back and. his fielding matched his
batting. The fourth time UP Tim called
strike On a ball over the corner, and
the youugster gave him a look that was
meant to Kill. Tim, in his peculiarly
sarcastic way, gave the youngster this
I'm the big leagues" with an emf
phasis on the big) there are four cor
ners 10 the plate
THAT may be- replied the youngster
but | did not know they had bay win
COWS.
Tie veteran Charley Wesley, for years
proprietor of the Weddel House In
Cleveland, where the visiting baseball
teams used to stop tells this story on
Captain Arson: After a losing trip
through the East in the early sos. the
members of the Old Chicago team-An-
son. Flint. Goldsmith. Corcoran. Will
Hanson. Pfeffer. Burns. Gore and the
, others-were sitting in front Of my no.
tel one night. when, as j walked out,
Arson suddenly addressed me as fol
lows:
.'s.Do you know, Mr.. Wesley, what !
am going to do when I'm too old to
play first base or catch?" Goldsmith
and Corcoran had been pitching in poor
form for week, and both inclined their
ears toward Arson as he talked.
No. ! answered. what are you go
ing TO do, captain
- am going .1o~rnake a rip-roarine
good pitcher OF myself ne continued
Goldsmith and corcor9n were all ears
but said nothing Soon after they push
ed back their chairs and went to bed