Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-08-01
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The A. o. o. w. team OF this city
took revenge on their Centralia rivals,
Sunday to the tune Of thirteen 10 two.
The game, which did not start till
after the rain, was called In the
seyenth inning on account OF darkness.
Bedhury and Clemens did the battery
work for the local team.
The A. 0. U. WIS. put up thier usual
good game and deserved to win BY the
large tcore which was mlde. The team
is composed OF unusually good talent
and Is run with very few hitcners,
which is extremely remarkable fer so
young a bunch Of bali players. Mexico
team In the future seems to be an as
sured success II only this team is pick
ed from.
Baseball teams existed as early as
Is45, says = writer in Success Magazine
but the tirst league was formed In
1857, when the National Association
Of Baseball Players was organi zed'
This, as the title implies, was an or
ganization OF players--in fact, OF ANA
teur players. They did NOT remain
true amateurs for long, however, and
in 1871 baseball was placed squarely
on q professional basis, when there
came into existence the National As
ISOLATION Of Professional Baseball
Players. 1t will be noted that the
players still governed the sport, and
they continued to do 10 until 1876. IL
was in this period that there grew up
the great abuses which menaced the
very life OF baseball, namely, gambling
and the buying and selling Of games.
In 1876 the players were deposed from
the government of professional base
ball. and they have never since con-
trolled the game.
When an outfielder sprints forty
yards at top speed, says Hugh Fuller
ton, in less than five seconds, keeps his
eyes on a flying ball and grabs it with
with both hands as easily and grace
fully as II be were picking a ripe black
berry of its vine, few persons who are
watching the game, consider that he
has done anything wonderful, writes
Hugh Fullerton. As q matter Of fact
he has performed a feat which Is sim
ply marvellous. Think even Of running
that far at such q speed. Think OF
keeping an object which is flying
through the air at the rate OF eighty
feet a second in view. Think OF cal
culating at one glance where the fly
ing speck will fall and then being
there to meet 1t, and you can have
have some idea Of the difficulties
which every outielder must meet
half dozen times, perhaps, in one af-
ternoon.
1t would take q professor Of mathe-
matics half an hour, perhaps, to figure
out where a sphere OF a certain
weight, struck by al object Of Ger.
tain force and driven at q single an
gel, would reach q point. Amy out
fielder, even 10 a minor league, makes
the calculation I'M fraction OF a Sec
ond. He doesn't do itby geometry, but
by instinct.
One OF the greatest catches ever
made was that Of Eddie Hahn, In a
game on the White Sox park late last
fall, when Comiskey's crippled crowd
was fighting desperately to hold on to
the lead In the American league race.
The game wa close and q long hit
would have robbed the Sox Of victory.
In the eighth inning one OF the oppos-
ing batsmen slammed a long line
drive into right center.
The drive seemed a certain triple,
for in the right field was a long row OF
circus seats putu to Accommodate the
big crowds. Hahn went oyer the
crowded seats and caught the ball
just in time,