Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15

sharkey or Mccoy look like buns in the
bread line.
On top of all of which here comes Jim
Corbett-beg pawdon, James ]. Cohbett,
mon-ol-o- gist-who vows, vums. affirms.
AYERS and asseverates that in his candid
and sincere belief. old John L., after a
months training. could take on Burns
and put him away in a couple of pokes
in the delicatessen.
Great old boys, these. No wonder that
there is excitement and things in all of
the Homes for INDECENT Gentlemen and
such like institutions. They all imagine
that they've got look-in. Why shouldn t
they, In view of what they're hearing?
Aggressive Ball Playing.
Some microbes die hard. One of them,
once widely inoculative, but now, praise
be. pretty we'll smudged out, is that bug
which causes the infected ones to be-
lieve, or to profess to believe, that "ag-
gressive" base bail means calling the UNI
pire son of a heavy-weather cook and
so on.
A pair Of remnants OF that ancient,
grisly notion are Johnny McGraw and Kid
Elberfeld
Listen to the recent deliverances on that
topic by lAcGraw:
Whats the use Of cowed ball PLAYERS ?
These jumps have got US reduced to a
bunch of jellyfish. that's what they have.
We've got to dance to the whistle like a
lot OF Polack coal miners knocking off on
Saturday night. Excuse muh Base
ball isn't any one-man-power game The
way they've got it framed now the Jump
is the works and the players are Just
the NUTS that do the chores and fool
around with nothing to say. Gimme the
o.den-golden days when. If we didn't have
a fool Jump buffaloed. we had the sign of
the OskaloosaS on him, anyhow"
And then Elberfeld of the Bowery walk
you'd expect him to exude things just
like he did recently as follows:
ME for the Texas game-hollerin' when
you're hurt. Every time. You gotta have
aggressive ball, that's all, OF the fans'll
get sore as butchers. They want the
scrappy stuff. They want action. They're
people that shave and chew tobacco and
talk right out loud. And they want ag-
gressive ball. You gotta give it to them .
Thus these two beamful, serene bea-
con lights Of the national game.
Fans Against Umpire Batting.
Do the fans want and demand bullying
of the umpire. either in New York or in
any other city Of the major league cir
cults?
The perilous state of McGraw's popular
ity, not only in all Of the outside cities of
his cTcuit' Dul right IN MS nome' club
town of New York. would seem to be
pretty reasonable answer to the question.
Don't swallow that bolus that McGraws
unpopularity in New York only began to
develop when he fell into the way of ne
glecting the interests of the Giants for the
ponies. A great majority of the fans had
the gnarled club out for the scrappy one
long before McGraw became SO fla grant in
his racetrack business, They were mighty
sore against him for his umpire batting
tactics during the season of 1906 and
they didn't scruple little bit to let him
know it as he dug about the field, either.
Frequently during that season there were
bowls and catcalls for McGraw, when he
was in the act of putting through one of
his old stunts of massins his team up
around the umpire. that came impartially
and hoarsely from all hands of the as
sembled fans. from the bleacherites to the