The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-24
Baseball
ALL.ClNCINNATI TEAM.
Frank Bancroft to Barnstorm With a
Bunch OF Stars.

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Bunch OF Stars.
Cincinnati, Oct. 24.-From now on
the deals and the trades that trans
pire during the winter months will be
watched for by the many and besides
this, many will be the wondrous
games played out in front of the stove
by the players from the big. as we'll
as the bush leagues. Within week
almost all of the players that hail
from this city will have rolled into
town and the stories that will be 60
ing the rounds will be many. and some
weird.
1t is more than probable that before
another week has passed the all-Cin-
cinnau team will be organized for
three-weeks transforming trip through
the middle states, and if the men who
are contemplated will only come up
to the scratch and play on the team
1t will be one of the fastest profess
sional mines ever seen in this country.
Here are the men whom Business
Manager Bancroft, of the Reds, hopes
to take on the trip: Pitchers, Nick
Altrock, Jack Pfeister and Jesse Tan
nehill; catchers. Harry Armbruster,
and Heinie Peitz; first sbase, George
Schlei; second base, Miller Higgins;
third base, Harry Steinfeldt; short
stop, George Robe; right field, Charlie
Armbruster; center field, Jesse Tan
nehill or Charley Doom, and left field,
either one of the pitchers. This bunch
OF tossers would make any team in the
big league hustle. 1t will be managed
by Frank Bancroft, and as the barn
storming Reds are due to return home
about the time that these other boys
expect to reach town, 1t is probable,
il the deal goes through, that they
will be started out Immediately. They
will undoubtedly have no trouble in
getting dates.
Il wonder II those fellows enjoy
playing the game or whether they con-
slider it work." is an oft-heard ques-
ton at professional ball games.
Some of the more off-hand chaps in
stand and bleachers don't put it in
the form OF question. They take it
for granted that all players OF the ma
tional game in the professional ranks
are passionately enamored Of the game
and that they'd rather play it than eat.
What perfect snapsky 1t is" they
frame up, this thing of being paid,
and paid big, just for having fun. Ali
they've got to do is to dance around
every afternoon and the boy with the
pay envelopes does the rest Pretty
soft, call It,"
But there isn't any great amount of
information behind these off-haud OBJ
servances. 1t would be about as exact
to say that an orchestra violinist or
oassoon player. or manipulation Of the
piccolo, enjoys himself at his method
OF making a livelihood. And yet per-
sons we'll acquainted with instrument
alists OF this class are aware that their
playing has become very sad sort
OF drag upon them within a very few
years after they adopt their profess
sion. Musicians. too. to carry the COM
parison along bit, have at least the
variety Of playing different pieces ev-
cry day.
With the ball player, however, the
composition" is the same old thing,
day in and day out, throughout the
season, and the wonder is not great
that perhaps great majority of the
veterans who have been playing the
professional game for eight or ten
years or longer learn actually to de-
spise the hour when they are called
upon to don their uniforms.
This is not to argue that conscien-
tious players of the first grade who
nave become weary Of the game don't
put their best efforts forth to deliy-
ering the goods which they are known
TO possess. But first-rate ball player
may play the game without a seeming
zest, and yet be bored beyond reason
by 1t, as some Of the most accom-
plished OF the old-timers, like Hans
Wagner and Jim MCGUIRE, for exam
pie, don't In the least hesitate to admit.
In this respect the harness-sore ball
players who lost their acute interest
IN the game years ago may, in sense,
be likened to thoroughbred racehors.s
OF the stake class, which, despite the
crouch against continued racing which
the best and the most even-tempered
OF them develop, go OH doing the best
that's in them as long as they're in
training, although to some race-horscs
of the verv highest class the bare
sight of the track as they are led out
OF the paddock gate creates within
them sort Of disgust which they
are we'll able to and do indicate by
their actions
McGraw Always Scrappy.
"Muggsy" McGraw, the scrappy man
ager of the Giants, made the aston
ishing statement in an expansive mo-
ment while back that he'd never
really cared much for the game of
baseball, even when he was one of the
most successful players in the coun-
try. The reason he gave, however,
was most curious one.
Baseball always took too much out
of me, even back in the kid days, when
! played hockey to bat 'em around on
the lots" said McGraw. at always
hashed my nerves and unstrung me
so that wasn't fit to be seen or
heard for some time after even a scrub
skinned lot game. The trouble with
me is that I never could play any old
kind OF a game without getting all