The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-09
MANAGER DONOVAN is LAST OF
FAMOUS BALL TEAM, NOTED
FOR AeeREsslvENEss.
MEMBERS OF PITTSBURG CLUB
Names Of suaden, 5Ierbauer, "Plnk"
Hawley, Brownie Foreman, Elmer
Smith and Others Recalled by a
Fan Hit Of BrookIynite That
Didn't Win the Game.

siveness has perhaps never been
eQualed on the baseball field. BY az
gressiveness one means playing ag
gressiveness-not the rowdy kind Of
work that has characterized teams
during recent years.
The old Pittsburg team Of the mid
die nineties was characterized by a
genuine fighting spirit, Most of the
players were stars, but they lacked
the team work which made cham
pionship clubs. Connie Mack was
then manager, but Connie Mack of
IL years ago and Connie Mack of to-
day are two different persons.
A look over the list of the Pitts
burgs OF Donovans time also shows
the fleeting quality OF baseball fame
or that old team, known throughout
every part Of the country, but two
are in the limelight to-day. Mack and
Donovan. AS one remembers them
the others are as follows
Bill Schriever and Joe Sugden-two
of the best catchers who ever played
the game. Schriever is now down in
some little state league in Ohio, while
Sugden is in the American association.
Jake Beckley was first baseman-he IL
now in the association and still fine
ball player.
Louie Bierbauer, the idol OF the
Pittsburg fans, and man who fielded
In Lajoie's easy-going style, was sec
ond. Louie, Louie" were the cries
which greeted every good play he
made. He contracted rheumatism
game for good. Fred Ely, sensa-
tional ex-circus performer, was
shortstop. He went to the west for
his health, managed a team in Ore
gon, and l believe is now dead.
Stuart was the best of many third
basemen tried by Mack. He is out
of the game now, and In California.
Elmer Smith, the wonderful left
handed leftfielder, is out in the bush
leagues in the west. Jake Stencil,
who led the league In hitting, and
player center field, is out OF the game
and living quietly in Cincinnati. Dono-
van played right, and was regarded
as the fastest base runner and most
finished outfielder Of the day.
Pink" Hawley, wonderful pitcher,
and Frank Killeen, the great left
handler, we're the teams mainstays
In the box. Hawley is running little
club in Eau Claire Wis, and Killeen,
worth at least 100000, is umpiring in
/ the Central league. Brownie" Fore
man, brother of the famous Frank
Foreman of Baltimore fame, another
pitcher, is out Of the game.
This was only 10 years ago. How
many of the present-day fans recall
the names mentioned?
Three years ago, when the Wash
ington team was in its usual position
at the tail end of the league, Ban
Johnson signed Patsy Donovan to
manage the club. The best players
were being sold to other clubs, Orth
going to New York and Coughlin TO
Baltimore Players were 80 scarce
that Donovan himself had to play right
| field.
Patsy had been out of the game
for season, and while his fielding
/ Nlu boL NUNS hid. Ai
though he finished the season better
than 800 1t took him several weeks to
get started, and in these few weeks
| he had some of the hardest luck ever
experienced by player.
! Out in Detroit he came TO bat in
the ninth inning with one run needed
to tie, a man on third and two out
| "a. Inft hot g,
Mcintyre, outfielder Of the Tigers
figured that Donovan's hit, If II went
to left, would be short.
Matty was wearing a fielding glove
which he had raised down on the lots
OF his old Staten island home. 1t was
| Matty loved II like he did the first
and fifteenth of each month. The
center of the glove was worn almost
through, but Matty chung to 1t. The
glove was of the best quality, so that
the hole worn in II was perfectly
round, the size of a ball, and right
through the first section OF the skin
Donovan smashed low liner over
third base. 1t looked like sure hit
Mcintyre came in like a shot, bu
thought he couldn't get the bah before
It reached the ground. He had about
decided to stop, take 1t on the frs
bound, and allow the score TO be tied
But he changed his mind and de
cided to try for the spectacular catch
He rushed forward with all his well
known speed, and at the last instant
stuck out his hand for the ball. The
ball dropped with thud and stayed
there.
Mcintyre continued on over to Dono
van and said;
Pull the ball out, Patsy. it's stuck
there"
1t took a good-sized yank to releas,
the sphere. 1t had caught in Tho
hole, and with any other glove in tn,
league would have gone for hit.
Pittsbure Wants Field Day.
Pittsburg has made a bid TO the Ma