The daily sentinel., 1908-10-31

Many of the most notable spoi
players and other athletic champion
Here is what Christy said in ps
Fellow Fans: The season is now
drawing to a close, and l seen moth
ing to this race but the Bryan end
Barring slump in batting, which
seems wholly improbable, hitting at
the clip he is now, the Lincoln ag
gregation will take the presidential
pennant with lots to spare.
He is grand manager. and his
pitchers have been going along nice
ly.
''On the other hand, his nearest
competitor, that team managed by
Taft. has shown a tendency to blow
up in the tight places. They are not
stayers like the Bryan bunch, because
Bryan keeps his men on their toes
all the time. full of ginger and fight
ing for every game.
Take the boneheaded play by this
fellow Sherman the other day. Why.
that BOBBY, Markle, didn't do any
worse when he grabbed our chances
of winning the National League pen
nant, which we will DO next year all
right, and you can tell Frank Chance
said so, too:
Sherman won't do. He ought to
be out playing in the political bush
somewheres instead of up in the big
league. He couldn't hit a pig in an
alley with a nine-foot shovel. He
has been making bubbles ever since
he started. He's dead one.
81 never could understand why
Teddy Roosevelt. who did the scout
ing for the republican bunch. ever
recommended Bill Taft, either. Bill
never showed anything when he was
playing in the minors, and he hasn't
produced since he was signed. A
couple of more years of seasoning
might make him ripe for fast COM
pany. all right; but. if it had been
me, I'd never have taken him on the
spring training trip.
''On the other hand, as Mordecai
Brown would say, Billy Bryan has
been wonder ever since he broke
out of the bush. He has been COM
ing right along from year to year.
and | want to say to you that | con-
slider him the greatest player
mean politician-in the world.
Hes got everything, and he's got
the noodle with it, and-well. my
friend Muggsy McGraw says Taft is
another one of those parties with his
head a-hanging down. | believe my
friend Muggs in everything except
his guess that | could beat Chicago
in that last game. which | could
If we had made more runs
Jennings, who had been cavorting
up and down the coaching lines, Civ
ing vent to the Detroit whoop of vic
tory. "E,oo-o-yah!" as encouragement
to Matthewson, was sent in to try
for verbal pinch hit. He succeed
ed in driving "A terrible argument
clear to the left field bleachers. Mr..
Jennings remarked:
Folks, the two greatest Bills in
the world are Bill Donovan and Bill
Bryan. Any time either one of these
gents is bending 'em over there's no
chance for the other fellow
''These bushers on the other side
haven't got chance in the world
They couldn't beat an egg. They
couldn't even beat Brooklyn. They
don't think fast enough. Bill Dono-
van, who barely noses out Bill Bryan
as the greatest Bill in the. world, and
who'd have beat that Chicago bunch
all right if his arm had been right
says he is going to pitch his head off
for Bryan next month because he
likes a classy fellow, and Bryans the
class of this league. if anybody asks
you.
"Bill Taft-where does he come
from? Where? The Milkmen's s
League, maybe; the Corn Pones. per-
haps-I don't know, l give ii up.
All know is he isn't even in a mile
of class @. and that is class we
don't have. Him up in the Big
SWING
Somebody please hold me, Take
that fellow Sherman. Say, il I'd ever
been guilty of signing him. | would
even expose my hand by asking for
waivers. I'd trade him for a busted
bat, and keep mighty quiet for fear
I'd be bawled out all over the circuit.
81 don't know how he got in this
league. and | don't want to know
| just want him to be released and
no more questions asked.
Stetson's Uncle Toms Cabin is
the title of really big company. |
which. under the personal manage
ment of Mr.. Leon Washburn. whose
name has been long and favorably |
associated with np-to-date amusc-