The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-04

Champion White Sox, Declares Ad.
nirer--championship Game at
End Of Season Easily outdrew
Burning Patent Office for Interest.
You may talk about your games be-
tween the Red Stockings and Chica.
gas, your Athletics of Brooklyn and
Athletics of Philadelphia away back
In the green days of baseball" quoted
one of the old timers over his eteln in
q well known resort for sportsmen the
other evening, but for baseball that
was baseball, give me the games that
our Nationals and Creightons played
back in the halcyon days.
Those two organizations were the
reading ones in Washington in the
years between 1875 and 1880, having
replaced the Jeffersons and Potomacs,
who had made the old White Lot IA.
nous. They were comprised of tho
leading young amateur players of the
city, and as for the rooters. the city
was pretty well divided. Every one
who paid the least attention to the
game in those days wore the color OF
his or her favorite-red and white for
the Nationals, and green and white
for the Creightons.
The Nationals were more evenly
balanced team, simply because they
practiced more regularly, as nearly all
their players lived near together and
they were able to get all hands to-
gether for frequent practice They
were scientific ball players all the
way through. and they depended on
their knowledge of the game winning
for them more than any team l ever
saw, in those days or now. ] have
only to tell you some of their men to
have you appreciate this; there was
Charley Lusk, John Laurie. Billy Lake,
Johnnie Hollingshead, OK Bielaski,
Charlie Blue, Charlie Withrow, Sadie
Houck, the Foster brothers, and the
great Paul Hines.
Now, the Creighton lads were more
OF the type of the natural-born-to.it
stlye," said the old fellow, "and say,
when that crowd struck their gait,
there was no stopping them. They
were the fastest set of ball players
you ever saw, and am not stretching
II one bit to say that from that one
team more first class professional
players were drafted than from any
other team in America.
why, the last season they played
was one of the most exciting in the
records, their final game heing played
on the day of the fire that destroyed
the old patent office. They used to
tell II on one of the Creighton boys
that this fellow, who played on tho
team and worked in the patent Office,
was so afraid that he would not he
able TO get off and play that he set the
Office on fire His name was Brande-
bury, and the gang almost made him
believe that he did do IT.
"The game was played at the old
grounds at Sixteenth and S streets,
and despite the fact that an important
government building was being des.
troyed by fire, nearly 10000 persons
witnessed the contest. Harry Cava-
naugh was manager of the Nationals
and Michael Scanlon filled that posi-
ton for the Creightons. This final
game was in certain way disappont-
ing TO many, for the game turned out
to be walk-away affair where a
closely contested one was expected.
The Creightons got the Jump on the
Nationals with one OF their whirlwind
bursts of speed and the best the Ma.
tlonals could do was score two runs
to the Cgeightons' 90
IA big parade escorted the winners
from the grounds, and they all packed
in here for the biggest celebration
Mike ever had. There's no need OF
those newspaper people going all the
way to Chicago or Cincinnati to find
exciting hall games"