The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-04

WILMINGTON, Del, Apfll 4'-Dio
YOU ever see that picture by Gibson
of 1.-THE Champion" walking hrough
! the. streets of his w town? the
champion looms way up above his army
of admirers who are ragged, dirty
faced happy youngsters, ignorant OF
the presence of a learned college pro
lessor on the same street and can see
no one but the big champ.
This picture flashed across my MIND
today when I walked through the
streets Of Wilmington. l saw about a
hundred youngsters trying yainly to
beat each other up to get near some
one In a baseball uniform. | thought
il might have been RubcW addell doing
a funny stunt or Christy Mathewson,
But was wrong both times.
who was re
That was the question ! asked my
i self. | started to find out. As | got
within helloing distance of the big
player ] found to my surprise it was
cur old friend Pete Cassidy. He is as
big a man in Wilmington as ever jim
Jeffrios was in San Francisco.
"Well, Well, Kiddo; you are following
the band, eh?'' asked the big first sack
err. as he shook a dozen clinging young
sters off his pant legs.
Cassidy IL Popular.
And how those youngsters envied
me. Up to The time l butted in on
their game Pete was handing it to
them for fair. They believed every
word he said. That shows how we'll
liked the spoutsmitn is in Wilmington.
Down here everyone knows Pete Cas-
sidy. If they don't know Pete he'll in
trodnce himself.
And. by the way. l discovered hat
Pete is right there with the rocks.
You have seen Pete breaking his back
trying to stop wide heaves in Jersey
City and Newark. but / have more
fear that he will put his spinal column
out of commission carrying home
money to his wife. Pete is in the sa-
. loon brokerage business. He has made
1923, 900 within eighteen months in the
real estate business, n expects to
make much more within the next
eighteen months,
The First Stacker Talks,
"How is everybody up in Newark"
Pete asked. Remember me to all of
them" he said. / promised him 1
would, so there.
you can talk about your towns for
playing pail in, but give me old New
ark all the time. | was sorry that l
could not get on with Stallings there
this year, for the big fellow will Ger
.~;.t. .t,ov. t,or,, ot,a thinoe in thn
Eastern League" And Pete continued:
did you ever heal how l came to
leave Newark, when 1 was playing for
old Tom Burns? It was in the Atlantic
League days, when the team went Oh
strike
Sure, Pete, it is just like ~Afghanistan
history 20 me. | never did let the first
sacker beat me to anything.
We'll" went on Pete, II was sorry
to cut loose from that old town, for |
certainly made more friends there than
/ have any place else. But it is like
this: Burns, as fine a fellow as ever
lived. was in bad with the money end
OF the game. We had not been paid
and 1t looked bad for the club.
I'VE had a Sunday game over in
Hartford. and 1 concluded that if Burns
D1d n cHdllCG ~ StN ON'i ~ az
would get a little piece of change to
help the players out. He came to me
that morning and asked me if | would
20 with him over to Hartford. | agreed
TO go, and he promised me my release
after the game. / went over and never
reported back again. The other guys
struck, but there was nothing like that
in my family. Carrick was the only
one who refused to 20 over TO Hart
ford and help Tom Burns get a little
Sunday money. Funny thing about ii,
Carrick efterward was charged with
scabbing it on a trade union Wen, l
never did that.
meets Billy Murray.
q met Billy Murray in the Lack
awanna station in Hoboken just after
getting my release from Burns. Muir
ray signed me. l went with him to
: Wilkesbarre, from there TO Buffalo and
then on to Montreal and Toronto. 1
played under my own name. but some
how or other they did not get on to me
until later. Then ] was suspended for
ten days.
IT was With Billy Murray for nine
wears, playing in Providence and Jer-
sey City under him and being with
him when he won three %pennants. All
the time / was in the Eastern League