The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-20

II see you have your shoes all right"
said the manager, "but fear we have
no uniform that will fit you"
ooh, that's all right" said Wagner.
II have my uniform with me-"
Good! Where is it?"
Here" said Wagner, rolling up his
trouser legs and exposing his baseball
stockings and the uniform where it
bagged below the knees.
you are WONDER said the man
ager. Come into dinner, and we'll
try you out this afternoon"
Wagner was tried out that day and
the answer is a part of the history IF
the national game.
One of the best examples of the eff
feet Of applause upon players was fur
nished by the Chicago league team of
1896, says Hugh Fullerton. Maloney
fast ball player, was the one affected.
Maloney was like dead freshman. "He
was good shoveler, but not what you
would call fancy shoveler." He new
er had made real good in fast company
until he struck Chicago. He got away
we'll at the start of the season, and the
right field bleacherites made him their
idol. From middling good player he
was turned into the marvel of that ysac
by the applause. The feats he per-
formed were prodigious. He made
seemingly impossible catches, covered
wonderful amount of territory, ran
bases and hit like a fiend.
Suddenly in mid-season, little bad
luck put him of his hitting and the
cheers ceased. The applause did not
die out much faster than Maloney did.
He ceased performing miracles. The
applause had stimulated him, and the
reaction showed him worse than he
really was.
Just how many ball players have
been put out of the business by Kisses
no one knows. There are hundreds of
them, all good men, who simply can
not stand the roastings they are forced
to endure IL they remain. Josh Reilly,
the second baseman for the Chicago
White Stockings was pretty bad as a
fielder and getting no better rapidly,
says Hugh Fullerton. The jeers, his
ses and boots of the crowd merely
made him mad. He wanted to fight
back. His Irish blood was boiling. For
time it seemed as II he would win
and prove himself a great ball player
merely by his nerve in playing at all
under such a constant shower of criti-
cism. But one day Josh got through.
l found him frothing at the mouth out
at the club house. He was done. He
never would play again-unless he got
a chance to kill certain man. When
he grew calm enough discovered the
cause of it. "He was big man sitting
in the bleachers," said Josh. while
they were all yelling at me for boot
ing that hot one, he sat still. l saw
him, and said to myself" There's one
friend of mine up there He never
said word until the seventh inning.
Then he stood up, stretched himself,
walked down two or three steps and
yelled: Reilly, you're a disgrace to
the Irish If had him I'd kill him."
John L. Sullivan described the other
day joke that he once played on Bob
Fitzsimmons.
when Fitz," he said, twas interes-
ted in farming, told him that my cou-
sin had lot of fine Dorking chickens
and l would send him one If he would
care for it. Fitz said he would be de-
lighted to add q Dorking chicken to
his collection.
80 got the Dorking, packed it in
basket, and then, for joke, laid an
egg beneath the bird on the soft straw.
"Fitz wrote to me the next day in
great establishment. He thanked me
for the Dorking, which, although a
rooster undoubtedly, and fine one,
too, had yet laid an egg on its way to-
him. Could explain this phenome-
non? Had I ever heard of such q
thing before?
81 wrote back and said:
"'The dorking rooster in laying an
egg, has certainly broken all records.
What makes this happening still more
remarkable Is that, II you examine the
egg you will find that it is hard boiled
one"
"If fighters would quit the ring after
they get two good lickings there would
be better fights, fewer fatalities and
room in lunatic asylums," said Tom
Sharkey.
ION the level" continued the sailor,
there's more dopy guys in the ring to-
day than people have any idea of and
it's all because they just love to get
licked. quit the game when I thought
there was no chance to be champion.
There's no use in sticking at the game
losing this week, winning the next.
and always taking a flyer at being
champion. These fellows go crazy be-
fore they ever get near the top, and it's
the same crowd that cause all the trou-
BILE. They go crazy in the ring, fight
mad, and then think ghosts are beating
them. Every man is good in the ring
until he gets one or two hard beatings
and then he's dead so far as fighting
is concerned. All of our best men have
fought one or two great battles and
then have gone back.
John L. Sullivan quit the first time
he was licked. John had the right
idea. He met better man and let It
go at that. Corbett lost to Fitz at
Carson in a gruelling match and was
never good after that Fitz never came
back after JEFF beat him that second
time. He can still fight, but he isn't
the same Fitz.
Young Corbett fought Jimmy Britt
bloody battle in Frisco. He was de-
clared the loser. 1t took the heart out
of him and he has never been the same.
Jimmy Britt was knocked out by Mel
son after terrible licking and 1t looks
as though he is on the toboggan. Ter
! ry McGovern was never the same after