Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-04-05
FEW PLAYERS LONG
WITH SAME TEAM
MAJORITY SHIFTED ABOUT AND
NOT MANY WHO HAVE NOT
PLAYED ELSEWHERE.
RECORD OF FRANK CHANCE
Captain and Manager of TWO Times
Worlds Champions Has Served
with Chicago Club Ten Years
PLANK n Mathewson Each on Re
spective Teams Seven Years.

spective Teams Seven Years.
Frank Chance, captain and manager
of The Chicago National league base
Ian club. two timesworld's champions.
has finished his tenth consecutive year
Of service with that organization. lie
has been with one club longer h
any other professional player now in
the diamond arena. There are not
many players who have never been
with more than one club. Considering
The number of players in the big
league fold, they are few and far he
tween.
Chance has served with only one
team since coming into major league
ranks, bnt in that time he has been
employed by two owners. The first
was Jim Hart and The second Charlie
Murphy. Chance joined the Chicasos
in 1898 as a catcher. He also has
played in the outfield for them, and
from a raw recruit has worked his
way up to leader of the strongest
baseball team in existence. and con.
sidered by many the greatest ever or
sanized.
Ills is the reward OF merit, and, not
being a rolling stone, he has gathered
a share OF moss. Yet TO be a rolling
stone in baseball does not imply i'm
providence, nor is il a rejection on the
ability of the player. There are play
ers who have changed about who are
performers of the highest class, ana
who have laid aside nest gigs OF com
Portable size. They have stuck TO their
work none the less faithfully for hav-
ing roamed under the various ban
ners.
Johnny King is another warrior un-
der The Cub standard who has not
played big league ball elsewhere. lie
came to the Chlcagos in 1901, and has
been there eyer since, catching many
games each year, taking the pounding
Of many pitchers season afte} season
with no falii.S .s&"Al the Q0s}tN~
Of his work.
He is one OF those day-in-and-day-out
catchers who do all the better work
for doing a great deal of it. The back.
stop is the recipient Of more actual
battering than any other one mar on
a team. and in view of this fact it is
somewhat surprising that some of
them-sueh as King, Bresnahan, Doc
in and Sulliyan-can do 81 much work
and do it so well.
Eddie Plank. the crack pitcher o.
the Athletics. has been with Connie
Mack for seven consecutive years. and
with no other. lie has come to he as
much OF a fixture in this city as Chris
~ M~athewson has IN New York. Like
Plank. Mathewson's big league career
has been confined to one team. lie
| pried his way into major company the
same year as Plank-in 1901.
The New Works came mighty near
losing MatheWson on a couple Of occa
slons. one when he was about to jumI
to the st. Louis Browns during the
war time. and once when he was trad
ed 10 Cincinnati for Rusie. but was
traded back before the season opened
In 1905. when Mathewson and PLANK
faced each other on the slab in The
opening game Of the worlds series
each had come to his respective clul
an unknown. and in the interim be
come famous in the same length oi
time and without changing employers
Fred Clarke, Tommy Leach anc
Hams Wagner are conspicuous exam
pies of men who have not been witt
one club all The time they have beer
in the National league. They have
however. been with one employer al
that time-Barney Dreyfuss.
They were with Dreyfuss when h,
owned The Louisville club, and cam,
with him to %Pittsbrg.. IN due time
they will pass out, possibly piayins
in some other city before retiring
though that is not likely, but wher
they do step down and out Pittsburg
ers will feel that they have sustained
a personal loss, 50 firmly have Clarke
Leach and Wagner become part AM
marcel of the Smoky City baseball
and its traditions. Pittsbufg hai
helped make them famous. aud the.
will have lone the same for Pittsburg
Fred Tenney was a faithful toile
for the Boston Nationals for ever long
er thar Chance has been with tn
Chicagos. but Tenney no longer /
identified with the fortunes of tn
Hub. He arrayed himself with III.
Boston forces in 1897. probably is a
GOOD a bail player as he evcr was, AM
vet he now is seeking his livelihooI
IN another field. That's the way il
baseball.
Two other Pittsburg standbys ar
the two pitchers. Sam Lever and Dea
con Philippe. They are as thorough
Ia insrained in the Pirate baseball
fabric as cotton in calico. Both hay
been with the Pittsburg club steadil
since 1900. and have known no oihe
master.
Only The owner of the Philadelphia
Americans has signed the checks tina
have rewarded Chief Renders iii;
hnud services since he has been
member of the national games elit'
The Indian pitcher joined Comm
Mack's team in 1903. Carl Lundgroi
4 she Chicago Nationals. and Bo
wing Of the Ciucinustis have don
ai their biz league pitching with on
cam 10th since 1913.