Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
Fine Stunts Of This Season Re-
call Other Performances
OF Past Years.
GREAT SEASON IN NlaETIES.
Historic struggles Of Those Days Have
Found no Equal In later Efforts
With Bat and Bali.


watched the game carefully and faith
fully for the last I'VE years are prone
TO the opinion that the game, as play
al by the American and National
ileagues today. Is faster and more sci
icntidc than any baseball which the
world has ever seen.
But fans OF say, Is year9' stand
ing. US well az many players who are
sim doing grat stunts IN the big
leagsies, and who took part in the his
tric struggles Of the early '9u's de-
clare that there never was such ball
before, ana never will be such ball
again as that which was put up IN
the t2-club league during the years
1894, '95, 90 and'97. when the Balu-
more. New Yorks. Bostons ana CieYe-
lands, 10 say nothing Of the other
eight teams, were battling for SUI
premacy
Hanl0n went to Baltimore from
pittsburg in 1898. when the Baltimore
team was. to put II mildly pretty
hunk. Hanlon fired all old timers, de-
fained the promising youngsters and
got out and hustled for more, Among
those whom ne retained was McGraw,
though Barnie had in the previous
summer been upon The point of selling
Mac to Arson for $500.
Hanlon never had lot OF stars ON
his team --;hat IS 90 start with, hut
that came later. In 1898 the club
made mediocre showing In the race
but it got out Of tho tail-end habit
Then Foxy Eddie began TO make
some OF his celebrated trades In which
the other fellows always seemed to
get the worst Of IT, He sent Chindle
ard Treadway TO exchange for Brouth-
ers and keeler, Shindle had been
good third baseman and o poor stick
er, both for Detroit and for Btlti-
more, but he was going down hill.
Treadway was hog-wild batter
whom Hanlon had obtained from Call
fcrnia at the samo time he got Catch
or Bill Clarke, late of Washington
fame. and Second Baseman Reltz.
Trcadway could run Just about as fast
as Clarke, but he wasn't the all-arOund
player that Clarke was. Brouthers, al
though an old timer. did good work
for Baltimore with the stick, and as
for keeler, everybody knows what
Keller has become. Then he was a
third baseman, and left-handed
thrower at that--a most serious handi-
cap for Il man playing that position.
Hanlon put him IN right field. Jen-
nDgs came from Louisville, with First
Easeman Harry Haylor thrown in and
hlllie Barnle. who had gone TO man
age Louisville, got IN return for these
two one Tim O'Rourke. and what
ever became OF Tim after he left
Louisville nobody seems to know.
JENNINGS GREAT PLAYER.
Jennings, who Is the new manager
OF the Detroit Tigers, developed into
what was probably the most brilliant
shortstop that ever played baseball,
though some still argue that Herman
Long OF Boston was his equal, II not
his superior Kelley, now captain OF
the Cincinnatis under the management
of his old leader, was purchased from
Plttsburg for a song. as was Brodie
nom So. Louis. aud these two turned
out to be able to Gil the left and center
gardens as acceptably as any other
Two Outflelders In the league. Kelley
Was a great batter. Brodie was good
one.
Hanlon during hts stay In Baltimore
always had the same catchers-Rob-
inson, the old standby, and one OF the
best that ever wore a mask, Clark, "A
good substitute. and Bowerman, now
New Yorks star, who very seldom got
u chance. Four men played first base
At different times--Taylor Brouthers,
Carey-also known IN Washington
and Jack Doyle. Reitz, from Califor-
mia. led the second basemen one year
McGraw. Of course was on third. Steve
Brodie and Stencil were IN center dur
ing these different seasons.
OF pitchers through the three cham
n n he g.ll
year. when Baltimore lost the cham-
plonship TO Boston by a margin Of ono
game. there vas long string Among
them were Mcmahon. Gleason, now
captain and second baseman OF the
Philadelphia National league club. Ar
thur Clarkson, Hemming, Esper, Baker
McNabb, Pond, Inks, Mullane, Hawke
Browne. NOps and Joe Corbett. There
may have been some others. but OF all
this list there We're only two really first.
class Observation-Disclosures and Corbett
Mcmahon WAS the equal of any twlrler
I'm those days not barring Rusie, Meek
IN, "Cy' Young (the old ICY" today or
Breitenstein. and Corbett, when he was
right, WAS unbeatable.
HANLONB GOOD START,
With the bunch OF has-beens. UNI
known and noudescrlpts, Hanlon went
10 Macon, Co., In March. 1904. and
started TO drill some baseball sense
into them individually and 70 weld hls
material into a team which was a
team In all that the world implies. For
two weeks in Macon and for two weeks
IN New Orleans the gang was put
through the PAGES morning and after
noon. and was taught more baseball
than they ever dreamed Of. The hit
and run was originated right In Ma
con at that time. and was tried with
success time and time again In the con-
tests with the Southern League clubs
The squeeze play was there perfected,
as well as the triple steal, which was
pulled on the other day by the New
York Giants With so much eclat. ana
hailed as a brand new stunt.