Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-28

Frank Chance, captain and manager
of the Chicago National league base
ball club, two times worl DIS champions,
has finished his tenth consecutive year
of service with that organization. He
has been with one club longer than
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 be-
tween.
Chance has served with only one
team since coming into major league
| ranks, but in that time he has been
employed by two owners. The first
was Jim Hart and the second Charlie
Murphy. Chance Joined the Chicagos
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
gained
His is the reward of merit, and, not
being rolling stone, he has gathered
a share of moss. Yet to be rolling
stone in baseball does not imply i'm
providence, nor is it a reflection on the
ability of the player. There are play
ers who have changed about who are
performers of the highest class, and
! who have laid aside nest eggs 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. He
came to the Chicagos in 1901, and has
been there ever since, catching many
games each year, taking the pounding
of many pitchers season after season
and with no falling of in the quality
Of his work.
He is one Of those day-in-and-day-out
catchers who do all the better work
for doing great deal of it. The back
stop is the recipient of more actual
battering than any other one man on
a team, and in view of this fact it is
somewhat surprising that some of
them-such as King, Bresnahan, Doc
in and Sullivan-can do SO much work
and do it SO well.
Eddie Plank, the crack pitcher Of
the Athletics, has been with Connie
Mack for seven consecutive years, and
with no other. He has come to be as
much of fixture in this city as Chris
ty Mathewson has in New York. Like
Plank, Mathewson's big league career
has been confined to one team. He
pried his way into major company the
same year as Plank-in 1901.
The New Yorks came mighty near
losing Mathewson on couple of occa-
sions, one when he was about to Jump
to the St. Louis Browns during the
war time, and once when he was trad
ed to 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 club
an unknown, and in the interim be.
come famous in the same length of
time and without changing employers.
Fred Clarke, Tommy Leach and
Hans Wagner are conspicuous exam
pies of men who have not been with
one club all the time they have been
In the National league. They have,
however, been with one employer all
that time-Barney Dreyfuss.
They were with Dreyfuss when he
owned the Louisville club, and came
with him to Pittsburg. In due time
they will pass out, possibly playing
In some other city before retiring,
though that is not likely, but when
they do step down and out Pittsburg-
ers will feel that they have sustained
a personal loss, so firmly have Clarke,
Leach and Wagner. become part and
parcel of the Smoky City baseball
and its traditions: ~" Pittsburg has
helped make them famous, and they
will have done the same for Pittsburg.
Fred sTenney was a faithful toiler
! for the Boston Nationals for even long
er than Chance has been with the
Chicagos, but Tenney no longer IL
| identified with the fortunes of the
Hub. He arrayed himself with the
Boston forces in 1897, probably is al
good a ball player as he ever was, and
yet he now t. seeking his livelihood
: in anothersheld. That's the way in
baseball. f
Two other Pittsburg standbys are
the two pitchers, samS Leever and 5Dea-
/ con Philippe. 1 They are Is thorough
"! inerained Ii the Pirate baseball
fabric 90 cotton IN Calico a9 Both have
been with the Pittsburg club steadily
since 1900, and have known no other
master. - III
| Only the owner Of the Philadelphia
Americans. has signed the checks that
have rewarded Chief Bender's dia-
hond services since he has been a
member Of the national games elite.
The Indian pitcher joined Connie
Mack's team In 1893. Carl Lundgren,
of the Chicago Nationals, and Bob