The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-16
FAMOUS PLAYERS
 WHO QUIT GAME
MANAGER DONOVAN IS LAST OF FAMOUS BALL TEAM, NOTED
 FOR AGcREsslvENEss.
MEMBERS OF PITTSBURG CLUB
Names of sugden, BIerbauer, "Pink" Hawley, Brownie Foreman, Elmer Smith and Others Recalled by . Fan = Hit Of Brooklynite That Didn't Win the Game.

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 Manager P. J. Donovan of the Brook. lyn team represents the last of ia nous baseball club which for aggres- siyeness has perhaps never been equaled on the baseball field. By az gressiveness one means playing az gressiveness--not the rowdy kind of work that has characterized teams during recent years.
 The old Pittsburg team of the mid dle 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 12 years ago and Connie Mack of to day are two different persons.
 look over the list of the Pitts burgs of Donovan's time also shows the fieeting quality of baseball fame. Of that old team, known throughout every part of the country, but two are in the lmelight today. 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 is now in the association and still fine ball player.
 Louie Bierbauer, the idol of the Pittsburg fans, and man who f1elded in Lajoies easy-going style, was sec ond Louie. Louie," were the cries which greeted every good play he made. He contracted rheumatism nine years ago and is now out of the game for good Fred Ely, sensa- tional ex-circns performer, was shortstop. He went to the west for his health, managed team In Ore gon, and believe is now dead. Stuart wss 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 Stenzel, 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 gs the fastest base runner and most finished outfelder of the day.
 Pink" Hawley, wonderful pitcher, and Frank Killeen, the great left handler, were the teams mainstays in the box Hawley is running c. little club in Eau Claire. Wis, and Killeen, worth at least si00,000. 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 12 years ago. How many of the present-day fans recall the names mentioned?
 Three years ago, wlPn the Wash lngton team was in it's usual position at the tail end of the league, Lan 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 so scarce that Donovan himself had to play right field
 Patsy had been out of the game for searol, and while his fielding did not sn fer, his hitting did AL though be finished the season better han 300 1t took him several weeks to get started, and in these few weeks he had some of the hardest luck ever experienced by player.
 Ont In Detroit he came to bat in the ninth inning with one run needed to tie, a man on third and two out Being a left handed batter, Matty Mcintyre, outfielder of the Tigers, agured that Donovan's hit, If it went to left. would be short.
 Matty was wearing a fielding glove which he had raised down on the lots 1f his old Staten island home. It was veteran of many campaigns, and Matty loved 1t like he did the first and fifteenth of each month. The center of the glove was worn almost through, but Matty clung to it, The glove was of the best quality, so that the hole worn in it was perfectly round. the size of ball. and right through the first section of the skin.
 Donovan smashed low liner over third base. It looked Ike a sure hit. Mcintyre came in like a shot, but thought he couldn't get the ball before it reached the ground. He had about decided to stop. take 1t on the first 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 we'll 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 so release the sphere. It had caught in the hole, and with any other glove in the ! league would have gone for hit. More Trouble. Souiggs-Had gumption enough to