The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-15
OLD CUB TEAM MAY
BE BADLY SPLIT

Changes will be made in the Chicago
National league club this winter.
That's the story which comes right
from the co1desJ. corner of the Lake
Shore, Boulevard c, Illinois, which
Is the coolest corner on earth with the
possible exception Of the north pole.
Four Of the Cubs are to eat milk and
mush out Of some other bowl thar a
Chicago piece of pottery in 1910.
It's the old story The Chicago man
agement has become convinced that.
as a team, the Chicago players have
gone about as far as they can reason
ably be expected to go, and That before
another championship is won there
will have to be changes here, there
and somewhere else.
New York knows all about 1t. The
only trouble with the Giants was the
fact that injuries threw them out of a.
three years in succession pennant.
They had a fair chance to win it and
possibly would have done so had IL
not been for Donlin's broken ankle
and few other calamities. Logically
they were strong enough to win the
pennant three years in succession.
The Chicagos won three times with
out slip, and made a good run for
the fourth, but there were Chicago
players who were trotting less nimbly
around the base paths, and there were
others who refused to trot, or who
were too long getting into condition
to trot, and by the time that the man
ager had got the team under way the
season was too far along for the Cubs
to eaten the leaders, although they
tried for all they were worth, and gave
up the ghost squealing and sore.
That's the only blot on Chicago.
When the players found that they were
whipped they weren't the sportsmen
that the Giants were when Chicago
stuck them for the championship after
New York had lost that famous Sept.
% game. Nope. Chicago just natur-
ally bawled about anything and at
everybody, and wouldn't admit that
another team had come down the river
with more speed than they had in their
old paddle wheels.
Even Johnny Evers, that immaculate
young snoe dealer of Troy, whose wit
is as nimble as his feet are lively
pouted like a 1O-year-old boy. and
wouldn't give up that Chicago wasn't
the Chicago of 1908.
No one just exactly knows who will
take the places of the mtA who are to
go, and no one seems to have found
all of the names of those VINO will get
their "good-byes and good luck be
with you" It's said that Sheckard
and Steinfeldt are two. If "Steiny's'
arm Is as slow in getting into con-
dition as 1t was last year it is possible
that Chicago will have to put on a.
third baseman in self defense in the
early part Of the season, even il ne is
not used toward the close.
There is story that he is to go out
right and that the Cubs will hitch up
with Lobert OF Cincinnati. Don't know
just how they are to get Lobert of
Cincinnati. but they seem to be after
him. At present, and with the chance
which Griffith seems to have to do
well in this day and generation, 1t isn't
very likely that ne will let Lobert go.
for the Cincinnati team looks a little
as If it will be first division con-
tender all of next year, and possibly be
able to swing along at a gait which
will keep everybody above the ground
floor guessing as t. whether 1t intends
to be a second-story affair or a show
on the main deck.
Three or four times It has been
whispered that Sheckard is through
with Chicago. He isn't batting as he
did once. Possibly he needs to go to
another club. Whenever he makes a
change he is usually good at bat for
the next year, and then the surround
ings become familiar and he doesn't
make so many hits.