Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-20


! freaks when brought before the real legal
; tribunals of the land If there is one
thing the wise moguls of base ball do
not want 10 do. it is to be made to look
foolish.
Cantillon has not made a move. one
way or the other. since joining the Wash
ington club that has not been along per-
fectlE estimate Lines. From loca' stand
point and the known facts, 1t appears that
his only crime has been diisent and
well defined effort toward placing Win
ner in the National capital.
! Comment and criticism over the re-
cent world : series continue to bob mp
and will probably continue all winter.
| The mistake that appears to he general
along the line is for the writer's to
contend that the Chicago Cubs repre-
sent strictly q brand of base ball solely
belonging to the National League. and
that by defeating Detroit it shows off
! the older body to be much stronger
! than the younger.
! Can anything be more foolish? The
! base ball players and are about Is or
90 per cent ahead of both leagues. The
Cubs possess plenty of brains and have
/ a leader in Frank Chance who ranks
with Connie Mack and is head and
shoulders above Hugh Jennings.
| The chances are that the Cubs this
| year could have won the National
t League pennant by the middle of July
!
/ erings among the players. AS soon as
! they realized that there was real trou-
/ BILE ahead the Cubs pulled themselves
; together and finally landed in front.
1t was "A close shave, Of course. but
! they had only themselves to blame.
! Just how superior the Cubs were can
be CLEANED from that one deciding game
in New York. facing as they did thou
sands OF hostlles and then winning
with plenty to spare. The Cubs trimmed
| the Giants much in the fashion they
! did the Tigers. and it would have been
a great day for the American League
! had any other aggregation in the Ma
tional League captured the pennant en-
cept Chicago.
/ The Tigers were not up to the Cubs
class, but they could have made the
New Yorks. Pittsburgs or Phillies look
like plugged nickel in IA basketful OF
newly coined silver dollars. This opinion
comes from interviews with players from
all over the country and Is not gathered
! from men who work in the press box
and must necessarily know but little OF
, the inside workings of the different teams.
| The Detroit players were the first to &C
| knowledge the superiority of the Cubs,
and were praying daily for some other
team to come out first in the National
| League Mathewson would doubtless
| have done wonders. and then, again. he
/ may have been just easy as Bill Don
| Ovan was. One pitcher cannot win a
| worlds series pennant. and outside OF
Matty and Bresnahan there is not much
| to the Joints.
The fact of the matter is that Frank
| Chance simply made Jennings look bad
! by comparison and subStantiateS the
general report that Hughey is a great
| jollier and a weak leader when it comes
| to originating anything in the playing
| line. Hughey kept the Tigers going all
| the season. and thereby managed to cop
the pennant, but when it came to the
final test it required something besides
the familiar "ey-yah' to beat out the
brainy Chance.
the New Yorks and Cubs, upon which
hung the championship, the following
ticle from the pen Of Horace Fogel of
| the Philadelphia Telegraph is chock-full
of meat and will be read by every base
| ball fan in the country with great gusto.
| He says:
| Speaking of the gameness of Frank
Chances team recalls a number of Incl
dents that happened in the games this
year between Chicago and New York.
which are worth reciting here. not only
because they are interesting. but because
they show the bitter feeling that existed
| between the players of the two clubs, the
scraps that took place and the efforts that
| were made by each side to rattle the
other. Thus. on Chicago's second visit TO
! New York. McGraw went out to coach at
first base in the opening inning of the
! first game, and the first thing he did was
to tauntinsly remark to Chance:
| That's fine bunch of Dutch cutters
! you have on your team. / never saw u
Dutchman who wasn't gutter. Why
don't you get few Irish to put some
sand in your team? You are just as yell
| low the rest of your German band. We
won't do "a thing to your Dutch crew in
every game from now on out
Chance cut McGraw short with this
brief reply:
/ The yellowest cur I can see around
| these grounds today is barking at me
now. If all the Irish were as yellow as
one Mugs McGraw I know there wouldn't
| be any room for them on the Chicago
| team
| Those were the kind of pleasantries 90
that were exchanged between Chance and
McGraw during games the past season;
I also between the players of the two
teams. who tried all they knew how to
rattle each other
Little Johnny Evers. who is as game as
a pebble. made an unkind fling at Mike
| DOnlin in one of the games, in which II
/ seems to me he went a little too far. This
| also happened in the opening inning OF a
game. Donlin was coming In from the
outfield as Evers walked out to his posi-
ton at second base while the sides were
! changing and they passed within few
| yards of each other.
| Flows the Baltimore Jail bird today"
| sneerngly remarked Evers as he passed
Donlin. This was the first time any one.
or at least any player. had ever referred
to that Baltimore affair of six years ago
| in Don!in's presence. Mike could stand
for most any kind of language on the ball
| field from opposing player meant to
rattle him. and which tactics are resorted
! to daily in games and then forgotten at
! terward. but Evers had gone too far and
| Donlin was riled. He turned around and
was about to spring at Evers and use his
! fists on the Chicagoan when this thought
occurred to him: IF / do that Ill get sus-
pended perhaps for the remainder of the
season. That might cost New York the
,,yNt<~ tp<, tA.lh tC -Dy
Evers offered me this insult. No. l must
teammates by doing something for which
! I'll be put out of the game. Donlin was
! furious with rage.
| I'll get YOU for that some time after
the season is over and you'll wish you
had never said it, Kissed Donlin at Evers.
'Oh. go on; you're bad a gutter
| the rest of your bunch" retorted Evers.
+ Don't you think IL takes d pretty nervy
sort of chap to hand out that kind of
talk TO the New York players, and right
on the Polo Grounds. too?
| AT another time Tinker yelled from the
coaching line to McGraw on the bench:
IF YOU had some of our pitchers you
might win a championship. but you can't
do ii with the yellow bunch you've got,
especially when they are yellow as the
one you've got working today" Mathew
son had just walked man when Tinker
| fired that shot at McGraw. Thinkers re-
mark made MathewsOn so angry that he
became ratified, and before he could get
! his bearings again Chicago had scored
enough runs to win the game. The UNI
pire chased Tinker to the bench but Joe