The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-30
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up to 1898 a more detailed map would
be needed. He was born in Cochocton
| n. Y, and started playing ball with
Glen Aubrey. From there he went to
| Poseyville, from Poseyville to Posey.
tuck, to Hickory Grove, to Blossburg.
of the map at Waverly, playing there
two years. Then he went to Lester
shire, and reached Syracuse in 1902
Schultz proved to be the man needed
In him Chance had found one of the
rarest baseball treasures. "third bat
ter.' The third batter in any team is
the most important He must hit long
ahead of him in a we'll constructed team
arc two batters who are on the team
for their ability TO ''get on and the
third man must be able either to move
them up or hit them home.
The team. after eighteen years Of eff
fort, was growing strong, but not
steady. II fought hard for the pen
nant in 1905, but was beaten. Chicago
at last had contender in the. pennant
| race. Selee was sick, and he did things
he would not have done had he been
well. Having a team almost complete,
he was kept from wrecking it only by
Chance. Selee wanted to release Slagle
he wanted to let Eyers go; he was so
anxious to get rid of Hoffman that he
refused to permit him to practice on
the diamond with the other players. In
the middle of the season Selec IS illness
forced him to surrender and Chance was
chosen as manager. The big, awkward
youngster who had Joined the team al
West Baden seven years earlier sud
denly showed himself great baseball
leader. The day he took charge of the
team he said: "We need pitchers. we
must have new third baseman, and a
al 6oS IL.
pennant,
Casey was playing fair third base
and Maloney was a sensational, if err
ratio, outfelder. and was the idol of
the crowd That winter the team was
sold by Hart, who had spent so many
years trying TO create a winner, 10 &.
Webb Murphy, who gave Chance abso-
lutte power as far as playing and get
ting players was concerned.
Chance knew the men he wanted He
wanted four; and three of them he got.
To get the first one he made one of the
most spectacular deals ever recorded in
baseball history. This man was James
Sheckard, n brilliant, clever and much
wanted outfielder who had disturbed the
Brooklyn club by playing hop scotch
with the American league during the
war. Here the gossip of the club proved
valuable. Sheckard was dissatisfied
The Brooklyn management did not think
Sheckard WAS giving his best services,
but feared to traue man who was pop
ular with the spectators. The trade
Chance made to get Sheckard stunned
Chicago followers of the game. He gave
Outtielders Mccarthy and Maloney,
Third Baseman Casey and Pitcher
Briggs. with $4,000 added. Chance was
satisfied. His outfeld was complete at
last. He swung Schultz to right field,
his natural position. put Sheckard in
left, and with Slagle in center regarded
the work as finished
Chance realized third base must be
filed or his pennaut hopes would filter
away at that corner. He knew the man
he wanted. Harry Steinfeldt, who was
playing indifferent ball with Cincinnati.
He was slow, a heavy hitter. good
fielder and wonderful thrower. Again
inside gossip directed Chance to a man