Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10
.UP-TO-DATE LETTER
FROM {. CULLEN
Takes a Whack at Hal Chase,
Jim Corbett and the Sa-
vannah Race Track.
By CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
special Cores poudence of The Star.

NEW YORK. January ., 1902
Will Hal Chase play ball again with the
Yanks"
Well. will Mr. Taft go to work on his
new job on the 4th of March next. and
Will we be down yonder with the jingle
bells on to see him ride up the Avnoo?
! Oh, we think so: we think so.
! It's just about the same kind of cinch
that little fair-haired Hal is going to
come a-spinnin along, AVA sgin' his tai
behind him. when the Yanks climb into
the roller for the training camp in the
magnolia country.
Fact is, Hal he's done said SO. Said
SO quite meekly. humbly alphabetically,
fretractinsy, wistfully and things.
Y'see. things didn't break just the way
Hal thought they were going to break
| for him out yonder on the slope. and Sc
there was nothing else for him to do but
! feel around to see if he couldn't get in
right again.
| General impression was. of course
which Hal himself didn't do anything to
! flag-that Mr.. Chase would be MADE
| president of two or three railroads and
some telephone companies and banks and
| irrigation corporations and little f1uftish
affairs like those in California, II so be as
! That's what they all say.
! But somehow o. another. the vested in
! terests and rooted industries of California
didn't seem to be clomping over each
other in order to get Halls name to con-
tracts calling for him to run the hull
works.
| And now Hal. he's out with a stack Of
wistful little letters to fellers back this-a-
way in which he says that, shucks
almighty. he never meant nothn' when
he packed his little bat and ball and de-
serted the New York Americans when
they were in rotten last fall. Never
meant nothin' tail Was tes' fooln',
that's all. He had the best interests of
the Yanks at heart all the time. only he
just felt like funnin' around little bit.
| see? And of course he intends 10 play
first base with the Yanks again If so be
as how Well. these letters are sort
of feelers and probers and the like of
that. meant for the eye of MIR. Frank
Farrell. the big chief of the Yanks. Mr..
Farrell isn't any crab. He takes MIR.
Chase's extreme youth into consideration.
and additionally he no doubt makes con-
siderable of an allowance for the puffy
wuffy conk which the youngsters success
on his initial sack job gave him. And
Mr. Farrell therefore. is agreeabl to the
proposition that the young 'un shall have
his situation back when the next playing
season opens
But whisper little: Mister Chase has
got to soldier hard from now on. / don't
mean soldering in the sense Of 1oaf1ng
around. | mean 1t in the sense Of get
ting on the job and staying there. and
yielding to discipline and cutting out the
childish peevishness and behaving like
somebody more than nine years of age
and all like that That is what Mister
Chase will have to do in the future II he
expects to get along real nice and agree
able with F. Farrell. Mr.. T. Farrell has
time and again shown himself to be just
as patient an individual as possible In his
running of the affairs OF. a ball club.
trif1ed with. imposed upon. gouged and
all sorts of things for quite a good deal
of the time since first he hoped into the
ball club-owning business.
Now he is tired. ! happen to know that
he is very tired The next ball player.
Chase or no Chase. topperno at his job
or no topperno. who attempts to insert a
muddy-ended wedge into the frame OF +.
Farrell Is going to stand for the rIdest
and suddenest poke in the history of base
ball amenities. That's the tip that is
out. and that's the tip that the members
of the Yanks will probably be abiding by
this coming season. And among those
present in the lineup who'll just have to
bus themselves wide open. SO to speak,
in behaving and In delivering the goods
and in endeavoring to efface previous bad
impressions. II. Chase of the golden sands
CT the Pacific country stands way up
yonder at the top of the list, and by this
writing H. Chase. much chastened in
Spirit. is thoroughly familiar with that
fact.