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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
BALL TOSSERS ARE SORE.
Criticise Edict Forbidding Owners
Money Gifts.

NEW YORK, August 29.-Big league
base ball players are not mincing words
in their criticism of the latest edict OF
the national commission which prohibits
owners of clubs which have pennant-win-
ming teams from making gifts of money
10 players at the finish of a worlds
championship series. The commission
has decreed that the bonus plan must
be eliminated.
In recent years IL has been the custom
for the winner of worlds championship
team to present his players with a good
~ share Of the gate receipts of games in
which the athletes do not share. Last
fall Owner Yawkey donated Sl5.U0 TO be
divided among the Tigers in addition TO
the regular "rake-off.' The year before
Comiskey added several thousand to the
fund which the White SoN divided when
they beat the Cubs.
In each worlds championship series the
national commission gets small share "
receipts of all games. The two teapS
cut up the lions share of TIE
money taken in for the FIRST foSF-
games Whenever the series goes moa .,
than four games the club owners pilSlsk
money. In most cases the owner; OF, a
two-time winner is generously incliped,
but the commission now proposes 10 pnt
stop 10 indiscriminate giving. F1he
PLAYERS are good and sore. and are talk
ing of organizing some sort of proteci-.
i've association.
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Suspicious folk are becoming scary
about this Gans-Nelson bout. which is
scheduled for next month at Colma. Re-
ports sent out from Hardin Springs.
where the negro has been since the fight
that cost him the lightweight champion
ship. state that Cans is not himself, that
he is a physical wreck, that his clothes
blow dismally about his f1eshless bones
like the garments of scarecrow, that
his breath Is short and broken, and that
his features border on the CHASTITY.
Now. all this might set very nicely on
the minds Of the credulous. but the Har-
bin Springs correspondents are applying
the brush of pessimism with. too rude a
hand. We might be led to believe that
the negro Is a bit sore and battled. and
that the confidence that formerly AIDED to
his power has now departed; but we
cannot swallow at one time and in one
dose the stateemnt that he is standing at
the open grave, with one foot already
in and the other moving in that direc-
ton.
Cans himself in a letter to Chicago
intimate, just received, asserts that he is
feeling bully and that not all the Nelson's
In the world can trounce him on Labor
day. Until the Hardin Springs CORE
spondents produce the proof of the alleged
physical decline of the negro, we will be
safe In taking Cans own word for the
state of his health Not that Cans
wouldn't lie, but that the correspondents,
by the way they are starting, appear to
be able to give him four, aces at that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

Mccoy caused word to reach Ryan that
he was i'll and unable to work. but would
put in an appearance on the scheduled
night. be knocked out and collect the
losers end. Ryan swallowed the bait,
matted his training, grew soft and fat on
the fat Of the land. Meanwhile. secretly.
Mccoy trained for dear life. Ryan did
not discover the trick until he faced Nc
Coy I'm the ring and was knocked out.
Since then others have tried the scheme.
some successfully. some with dismal re-
suits.
Joey May Be Cunning.
In the present instance. it may be pos
sible that Cans. in permitting the reports
of his poor condition to be wired from
Hardin Springs. has McCoy's cunning In
mind If he has. 1 fear he is to be out
his cunning and no returns. For Battling
Nelson is not the man to be lured from
his training. The Dane is said to have
SHE'D bit at the good old training rou-
tine under the fascination Of sweet, glriisn
eyes that sought to make life pleasant
bed of roses for the young pug1list In the
first flush. of his greatness, directly AFTER
his sensational defeat of Young Corbett.
Teddy Murphy fumed and ragged. but
Nelson wouldn't listen. with the result
that he was defeated by Jimmy Britt on
points There is this about a Dane; you
only have to teach him the same lesson
once Nelson hasn't forgotten his. and
all the stories that all the scribes at Har-
bin Springs could write in all the hours
between now and Labor day wouldn't in
fluence him to take matters easy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
NO SENTIMENT
AMONG PLAYERS
Are Too Busy Playing Game
Only Ex-Stars of Diamond
Wax Sentimental as
They Watch Game.

mere Is no sentiment among active ball
players But how different after a player
has passed up the game for several years
Tor then he becomes full of sentiment
as an egg of meat and nothing gives him
more pleasure than to meet his old COM
rades of the ball field for social chat or
smile with the old fan who recites some of
his successful stunts on the ball field long
since forgotten by the ex-star of the dia-
mond.
The player in harness is busy watch
ing every move on the base ball checker
board. He must to keep up his end, and
If he is serious man he Is obliged to lead
temperate life to give his best service
and hold his position. With the difficult
problems before him the ball player is
rare who can take matters lightly and
grow sentimental. How different after he
has thrown off all connection with the
game. Players with whom he fought
tooth and nail on the field have become
his best friends, for there Is absolutely no
jealousy between ball players after they
have passed up the spangleS for more re-
liable pursuits.
In fact, old ball players with the repu
tation of being unseltish are sure to re-
ceive the loyal support of their old aSsO-
ciates when the opportunity arrives for
turning in favor, even more SO than
chums at college.
It's rema rkable how little some of the
men drawing fancy salaries at the present
time know of the men who really made
the game. Perhaps the game never had
or ever will again have two men who
played the game as Hugh Duffy and Tom
Mccarthy did. Nothing at the present
time hold this pair for moment.
Both were remarkable batsmen. base
runners. fielders and up to every trick of
the game. Quick thinkers and daring.
Duffy and Mccarthy meant great ball
every time they walked on the ball field
for the Boston champions in the early 90s,
and yet we find men in the profession who
never heard their names. For example,
Tom Mccarthy, the clever young pitcher
of the Boston Nationals. met Tom Nc
Carthy. the famous old ball player. sew
eral times in Boston, and was rather
Carthy talk base ball and tell how plays
should be made. The young Boston man
finally asked if Mack ever played the
game. There were several men standing
about, who, hearing the question. burst
into round of laughter. Mccarthy
bought the drinks and later admitted that
he had never heard of the Boston man as
a ball player.
When Mccarthy told his young friend
that he had on many an occasion covered
first base for the throw coming in from
right field when Charley Comiskey was
surprising the natives with his st. Louis
Browns. the young Boston man could not
conceive how the play could be pulled on.
but was soon convinced that few balls are
ever hit to right field when men are out
to hunt. and with an intelligent pitcher
in the box il was an everyday play for
the bright boys of old ST. Louis.
The outtield playing is today cruds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
HALSTED TO QUIT TRACK.
Famous Miller Sore Over Treatment
in London. ~

NEW YORK. August 81. F. Halsted
of Cornell University, the most sensa-
tional one-mie runner America has seen
since the days OF Tommy Connect. is eo-
ing to retire from the track. This news.
unwelcome though it is. is vouched for
by a member of the Olympic games party
to whom Halsted confided his intentions
shortly after the London games were
over Halsted made no secret Of the fact
that he was sorely disappointed at his
luck in London, both on account of the
stomach trouble that affected his running
and the unfortunate" heat drawings that
paired him against Del Sheppard in his
first effort.
Halsted has been running less than a
year. and in thai time has developed to a
point where he can negotiate the mile in
minutes and 20 seconds, Halsted ar
CUES that as he is through college and
has attained the goal of every university
track and field man-an intercollegiate
championship--there is little incentive for
him to run any more
If Halsted retires athletics will lose
one of the best performers in the middle
distances that ever carried college EN-.
blem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
INJUSTICE OF
PRESENT RULE OF
CHARGING LOST GAMES

When base ball lawmakers go into win
ter session they might with profit once
more take up the case of the pitcher. For
many years wise solOns grappled in vain
with the equation of the pitcher and bats
man, but finally they were rewarded in a
reasona BILE poise and mutual satisfaction.
The problem of striking a plane that
would give equal opportunity to pitcher
and batsman. penaliZing one no more than
the other. and at the same time establish a
system of play calculated to stimulate and
preserve the interest of the spectator and
increase the science of the game. proved
too great for solution without years of
varying experiences. Today the men who
gave their time and thought to these prob
lens have ample ground to be proud OF
their labOrs. for the conditions which they
created have stood the test of years and
continue 10 be regarded as successful and
satisfactory. In the light of their expert
ences, therefore. these or other base ball
Legislators should not falter in addressing
themselves TO the matter of protection to
a pitcher who wins game and must. be-
cause of some trifiing misplay on the part
of teammate. suffer the charge of de-
feat At first glance 1t might appear ut
terly impossible to entertain this PROPOSE
ton. and yet the injustice done the pitcher
Is so fragrant that Ii does seem that that
alone should force upon the men who
direct the destinies of base ball serious
consideration OF this question. Just a
short time ago one glar1ng example OF
this kind was brought to light. Overall,
pitching for Chicago in New York, held
the Giants to one scratch hit. while
Mathewson was hit seven times by the
Cubs. Overall by all odds outpitched his
opponent, and on his superb pitching ac-
tually won his game. but he was deprived
| of the victory. Such cases are not eX-
tremely rare. Jack Pfeister of Chicago
has been peculiarly the victim of just
such a misfortune this year The con-
slant recurring of these things Is what
| suggests the idea of trying to see if some
remedy is not possible. Consideration of
| the subject at least will do no harm Man
| ifestly. there are vagaries in base ball as
| in most everything else. and this may be
one of them which. some may say works
with equal effect on all pitchers and must
simply be endured. But that is not quite
| right. Ii does not operate on all pitch
ers with equal result. Close observation
will show that il is the high-class pitcher
who suffers from this situation. 1t may
be visionary TO expect that a pitcher un-
der such circumstances should be credited
| with victory instead of defeat but all
| the same there is a sense of justice in
| volved which certainly does not seem 10 be
& ratified things now are. Moreover in
| terest In game Is married, If not de-
| stroyed. very frequently by the i'll bal
anced rule that robs a pitcher of bril-
| liant victory under such circumstances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
BASE BALL AT NIGHT!
Five 100-Foot Electric Towers to
Light the Field.

CINCINNATI. August 2-Garrv Herr
mann. president of the national commits
sion. announced a few days since that he
had filed papers of Incorporation for the
Base Ball at Night Development Com
pany.
I'VE will let contracts at once for the
ierection of five towers. each one hun
dred feet in height, on which she lights
necessary to illuminate the field will be
:placed." said Hermann. The lights
will be SO arranged that they will not
shine into the eyes of the fielders, except
where an infielder is compelled TO run di-
rectly facing the outfield after a ball.
and then he will not be handicapped as
much a man who usually plays a sun
field. I have investigated the scheme
thoroughly and am convinced that ii will
be big success We expect to have the
plant installed in time the Reds return
from their next eastern trip. and hope
to give a SEXES of games under the new
system before the season closes.
IF the innovation works as we'll as we
expect IL to. base ball will be revolution
lied. for il will be poss BILE for us to then
eater To a large mass of people during
the week who heretofore have had their
opportunities for seeing games restricted
TO the Sunday exhibitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
GREAT BALL CLUBS
WIN FOR PITCHERS

without doubt base ball people are
the most deficient logicians in the world.
At least more absurd logic is printed on
ba se ball pages than anywhere else in the
world" says the st. Louis Republic.
kid" Elberfeld, manager OF the New
York club of the American League is
quoted as saying that no team, lacking
great pitchers. ever won a championship
Truly we do not remember that any
of the pitchers of the famous Baltimore
Club were truly great. AL Maui did lot
toward winning one of it's champion
ships. Al Maui had nothing but good
club behind him. McMa hon, Jay Hughes,
Joe Corbett, DIR. Pond or Jimmie Nc
James could scarce be considered great.
They won games-therefore were great,
with Baltimore. But not anywhere else.
And be it remarked that Baltimore
often beat clubs for the championship
that had great pitchers. 1t beat New
York in 1894 with Rusie and Meekin. 1t
beat Cleveland with Young and Cuppy in
1S9j-1S96. 1t had no such pitchers as
Nichols of Boston or as Vic" Willis. who
was teammate of the same Nichols.
When the Orioles met these clubs in the
Temple cup games the great pitchers,
working every other game. usually beat
them. For Baltimore had no pitchers
worth speaking Of. McMahon the best
pitcher of the Orioles had nothing in the
way of speed and curve that at all COM
pared with the possessions of Rusie and
Meekin or Nichols and Willis or Young
and Cuppy.
pitchers help just as inf1elders. hitters,
etc. help: just Hans Wagner helps.
But a club can win championship with
fair pitchers. Detroit did it. Was it the
big four or the pitchers that won for
Detroit and Buffalo in the eighties? Bald
win Getzein and Twitchell were no stars
in the pitching way.
No; the pitcher is not all Of the team.
Not by a jugful.''
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go yards, so his poor showing was ex-

80 yards, so his poor showing was ex-
planned.
Saturday a week ago he made good.
The uuarter-mie swimming champion
ship of the metropolitan district was
competed for at Travers Island, ana
Reilly won it in brilliant style. defeating
a cracking good field, In which was no
less a star than Bud Goodwin OF the
New York Athletic Club, the former out
door champion at the distance rms
places him on top of the heap and II Z.
NJ Daniels sticks to his resolution not
to swim any distances above the iur-
long it makes him the leading quarter
miller in the country. Goodwin mas oe-
feated all others.
Reilly belongs to the new school OF
swimmers He taught himself the truds-
con two years ago and won a few races
i'm the summer of 1907, but it was not
until last winter that he blossomed Out
into a prospective champion HIS SUD
den improvement can be traced TO the
clever handling of Lionel mckenzie
coach of the City College, VINO INTRO
duced him to the intricacies of the crawl.
corrected the faults of his trudseon ana
showed him how TO train. enabling MIN
to take some of the best indoor events
of the year. Reilly is only seventeen
wears old and already champion: RE
has covered 100 yards in 1.Ol 20, Nv
wards In 237 and 44O yords in DOL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
RACING GAME NOT DEAD.
Breeders Encouraged by Reports
From Many States.

LEXINGTON. Ky, August 29.-The
yearlings belonging to Col. Milton Young
of McGrathiana Stud, Col E. +. Clay Of
Runnymede Stud, Catesby Woodford Of
Raceland Stud, John ID. Carr, Thomas
Piatt and Buford Allen are to be sold at
Sheepshead Bay during the meeting OF
the Coney Island Jockey Club. The
dates for selling begin today and run
until September 5.
The yearlngs catalogued number 40.
and are all in good condition In the
light of the decisions of Justices Bischoff
and Gaynor and the more favorable out
look for a betterment in the affairs of
the turf in the east. they are sanguine
that higher prices than obtained for the
comparatively few sold during the June
July sales period will be forthcoming.
Letters from New Orleans contain the
Information that racing al City Park and
the Fair Grounds during the coming win
ter is next to a certainty. Rumor has
1t that there is better than an outside
chance that the Chicago tracks will be
reopened next year. Advices from Cali
fornia are to the effect that the powers in
control of racing have no fear of any
successful effort on the part of the re-
formers. All of this is very encourag
ing to the breeders. and the blackened
clouds are slowly disappearing.
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JOE CANS GIVES LIE TO STORIES
ABOUT HIS CONDITION-WILL BE O. K.

game and then beat him out with royal
straight flush.
Same Story About JEFF.
I remember how. just before Jim Cor
belts second fight with Jeffries. we were
all trying to show the big fellow up as
champagne-wrecked chap. nice and ripe
for a trouncing, and to strengthen our
contention We used to have the artists
take a strong, rugged photograph Of the
champion and paint CHASTITY hollows In
the cheeks and "tell-tales" underneath the
eyes. Maybe the sporting editors won't
thank me for giving away one of the
standard tricks of the trade; but 1 think
the confession of that trick turned on JEFF
fries is necessary to call the turn on the
Hardin Springs scribes who right now are
SO deep in the gloom.
OF course the tales may be circulated
for the purpose of influencing the betting
odds, but hardly think so. Betting odds
are not easily Swayed in that manner for
the reason that the average Spectator
figures his fighters by what they have
done In action and not by what the news
papers say they have or haven't done
in training. Sometimes. though mislead-
ing reports are sent out in the hope OF
encouraging an opponent to knock off in
his training. The famous Ryan-McCoy
case stands as the typical instance of this
species of trickery.
Ryan, you remember. having taught Nc
Coy all he knew about fighting and then
having fallen out with him, agreed to
meet his erstwhile pupil in battle. No
sooner had they gone into training, than
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enough. and while the infield has i'm
proved wonderfully the outfield is still ia r
from development. Mccarthy is dead
right in this contention.
After player has passed up the game
for ten or twenty years he has grown wise
to thr~fact that the game is badly in need
of brains to run ii and friends &c
keep 1t clean and out of the hands of the
gamblers. In fact, it's the retired player
who can fully appreciate this fact. for he
can look back at the time when the mi
crobe gambler was doing his level best to
kill healthy sport.
Then. too. what would the game be
without the old-timer? One humdrum
of rafting bones and beating the tomtom
without strain of sweet music from the
harp with thousand strings. For it is
the stories of the past that the fan thrives
on. The old games played over again
with only the contests that went your
way to dwell on. Yes. indeed, We must
have the old as we'll as new If only for
the fun of the argument, for there are no
games like the old games no music like
the old music, and no warmer hearts than
the dear old ones.
There was honor among the old-time
ball players. there was no insulting lam
guage used onSthe ball fields in the early
history of the game There was at
tempt to intimidate the players by calling
men out of their names from the coaching
lines. and when these old players meet In
after years there is no sore to heal, and
sentiment has a full swing when the old
boys get together to swap yarns and
laugh over their many trials as ball play
ers. The men playing the game today
will no doubt develop In time like the but
terfy and shine in the sun flashes of
base ball sentiment in the days to come.
X X
One of the real treats Of the annual out
ing at Paddock's Island each season is
the appearance of the two Boston mag
mates. John 1. Taylor and George D. Do
Vey Both were good amateur players
and take part IN the games, showing a
hne line of sentiment for the old players
that won their hearts when they were
boys.
Then we have the old college players
taking part with the eX-professionals on
comomn ground and an entering into the
spirit of the meeting with a zest that
does one good even to look on as loyal
fan. These were the boys who built up
the game. developed the fine points and
possibilities of the national pastime.
When the boys gather for their annual
meeting the old players of other parts of
the country are not forgotten. The pen
nant won by the Boston Players League
club in 30 is hauled TO the top of the Ir-
win flag pole or members of the old Or
ganlzatlon and the boys who were i'm the
thick of that great fight are named over
and commended for their loyalty to a
cause that lifted the game out of the
mire.
It's always a day of sentiment and each
year finds the brightest SUM- tempered
with an ocean breeze. playing across the
little island to the delight and entire sat
1sfactlon of the grand army of base ball
players and genuine fans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
MASKETTE FOR FUTURITY.
This Keene Colt Said to Be Faster
Than Colin.

NEW YORK. August p. - Maskette is
now the favorite for the Futurity. The
defeat of Sir Martin in the Hopeful
stakes by Helmet has caused a decided
change in the opinions of turfmen rela-
tive to the winner of the big Sheepshead
Bay classic AS Maskette has a big
advantage in weight and will be in re-
ceipt of nine pounds from Sir Martin.
trainers declare that she is much too
fast for the colt and will surely defeat
him over the Futurity course.
1t is not generally known that Mas
kettle has shown trials much faster than
any which Colin displayed as a young
ster. She has worked a half mile bet
ter than any record for the distance. She
had heavy shoes on and her stable boy
was totally unprepared for any extraor-
binary flight of speed. There is not
filly that has the power and substance
that Maskette possesses. She is as big
and strong a colt.
Although James f. keene will be rep
resented in the Futurity by two other
fillies. Melisande and Wedding Bells, and
possibly Helmet, Maskette will be the
main reliance of the sta BILE. Her weight is
lis pounds and she has a big advantage
over many of her opponents. Notter will
have the mount. She will have the pref
erence in Mr.. Keene's declaration as to
the horse with which he intends to win.