The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
|OWICk DID
|UCH FOR GAME
/ of Baseball Cham
bed the Great National
port for Many Years.
BY FIN MURNANE.

Chadwick. 1 knew him well
ty years.
him by reputation for
ears, practically the life of
and while l never considered
|adwick the father of baseball.
IS believed that he loved the
adoption and nursed the in
int as a gardener would a ia
[ose bush. and, seeing it thrive.
all the more for the fact of
o closely connected with so
a creation.
Chadwick learned TO plav
as a boy in England. and the
has boyhoOd was ever nearest
ri. Being a clever writer on
hnd finding that baseball was
he game Of this country. Mr..
lex fell into line, influenced bv
Henry Wright, who took the
Englishman 10 HOboken. n. }.
his first game and instructed
4 the rules.
Over Sixty Years Ago.
was over sixty years ago. and
at time until he laid down his
Brooklyn a few days ago, Hen
wick was the American gamers
FVoted champion, and well de-
monument to his memory. A
ent L'at viii symbolic the rise
mpleSsscreatiOn TO the highest
outdoor sports, by the pen of
who could paint the ideal and
fuggle on 10 see his dream real
n the early '70s, when the old
park at Brooklyn was the scene
~ a crooked deal on the ball
e name of Henry Chadwick was
Dy the wrOngdoers. for his pen
Ver idle. working to save the
rom the influence OF gamblers.
III players without hearts or
no We're knitting the sport. The
then could make more money
Pked deals and double crosses
the salaries guaranteed by
money.
hadW1ck never wrote a line on
that WAS not clean and in
Is, as he was ever trying to
the game and continually
out the defects, as. he saw
{
ears IN the early history of
onalism Chadwick discouraged
litting. claiming that it handi-
the chances for line drives. and
fasier chances for out. His
was laughed at, but today the
tsmen are those who can line
out rather than those who
ong hits high in the air to the
towering outfielders. You win
lay the best fungo hitters the
batsmen when it comes to
. the ball safe.
ban knew the playing rules as
!. Chadwick. He was present
fetary of the first convention
the rules as practically govern
Nme at the present time We're
kT for forty years has lent
e advice To the rule makers.
Henry Wright and Henry
ok the two men who knew the
l rules best.
ekeeper Didn't Know Him.
DIRK ~ his face was as familiar liar
Il people interested III baseball.
usually attended the baseball
Ings during the winter months.
as usually found at important
mes. In the fall of 1906 he called
at the Marlborough hotel and
nat he would like to see the
me between the Boston and
{ork Americans where the cham
. p was To be settled on the last
rode TO the Highland grounds
he veteran to find that he was
Vn by the officers at the park.
/ took me no little time to i'm
bn those in charge that Henry
fck should be welcomed with
rms To any ball ground that he
with his presence.
a lot of red tape, and much
stion, to old Chad" we were
I'd to the grand stand, and how
hn of so years of age enjoyed
|ontest He never lost a play
lnmeNted on every move of the
! in sSWay that amazed me. for
3ln't believe that his sight was
|nough to take in the rapid
| of the men who were working
their lives depended on the re-
| After the game 7 looked over
$re book to find every play re-
much better than / had ever
before or since Chadwick-s
he called it, was invented
forty years before.
Had Little Money.
| h Chadwick's great work for
IN netted him little in a finan-
6y, for about the time l mention
lied on his old friend. A. G.
BIZ. and said he was worried
h place to be buried. and he felt
he was drawing near TO face the
| n.7 Mr.. SpaIding was always a
4 favorite with the great writer
lack in the days when Spalding
Etching the Boston Reds into
championship. Finding an old
worrying about something he
was far off. A c. Spaldine
n Old Grad. by saying: Never
Chad. you go and pick out a lot
liking in your favOrite ceme-
i ad have them send me the biz"
notice by the reports in the
that our baseball champion
| 1t there TO rest
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