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1890, when an insurrecton OF the players
against the National league club owners
checked Its progress. The cause of tho
rebellion. was the attempt Of the. club
owners 10 Limit all salaries. The players
for time seemed triumphant. but lead
erS among them treacherously sold them
out 10 the club owners. and the Players
league collapsed, leaving the owners
heavily In debt and the game discredited
In many puces.
Slowly the era of prosperity returned
Interest Increased rapidly Baseball was
fourishing more and more until 1900
leagues OF the country gave II another
serious reverse. with the re establish
ment OF peace and uniform laws govern
Ing all clubs and players the game made
wonderful strides forward year by year.
The owners OF the major league clubs
| themselves were surprised Tho develop
ment OF interest In the game during the
last ten years has been so rapid that men
unable to accommodate their patrons.
From the field in the pasture lot at
Cooperstown, where Doubleday stepped
of ninety feet, an era of million dollar
| plants. each seating up TO 40. 600 specta-
tors. shows the change IN tho game.
As an amusement enterprise baseball
| today 1s scarcely second TO the theatef.
] IL caters TO millions OF spectators and
| represents an investment of perhaps
| 800, 900 in property and PLAYERS. The
| property holdings OF the National and
! American leagues alone represent In
| vestment Of about 'Sl5. 900, 900. The siss
| 600 n season In salaries to players and
spend nearly as much In securing and
trying out new players. Add to this the
salary lists of thirty-eight minor agues,
| and the wages paid by thousands of semi
| professional clubs, and the immensity ~
| the baseball business as amusement
| enterprise may be imagined.
(TO BE CONTINUED
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/ win because my team does. Pos
sibIy part Of the credit is due to me
and / am net modest enough to ais
claim any credit. ] strive to keep
them fighting, working hard all the time
and cutting out the pace for the other
teams, because ] believe we have the
best, ball club and the gamest, and the
one that Will wear down the others
and beat them out. | am not much of a
stickler for harmony and do not care
whether there is harmony among the
players or not-so long as they are har-
monious on the ball field and will do or
try to do what they are told to do and
not do anything that will hurt the
club.
Devotion TO the club itself is all the
harmony necessary, although it is pleas.
anter to have it. Sometimes twenty or
thirty fighting, aggressive ball players
are hard to harmonlZc, but it can be
done, ms far as the game itself is con
cerned. Tho best infcld work I ever
did was with player who didn t speak
TO me all season except to call mo if l
came slow-and you bet / came and he
came,
In the FIRST place, when team starts
training there is one thing every man
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In the American and National leagues
won the championships in their own
leagues and met to play for the world $
moil for weeks. business was neglected.
and work In many cases abandoned, The
foreman OF one OF the great newspapers
was compelled to send all the American
league adherents In his office 10 one de-
partment and the National leaguers TO
another, keeping them apart so the paper
might be printed without delay. Police
records showed hundreds Of arrests Of
men who fought while disputing the
merits Of the Two teams.
The Sunday editor of one paper sent
three reporters out into the city TO dis
cover some adult male citizen who AL
not know that the White SoX and Cubs
were to play. After five days of can
Vassing many sections OF the city ana AL
classes of i,s cosmopolitan population the
man was found. He was German
butcher and he became famous in a day
as the only man in Chicago who was jig
norant OF baseball and the approaching
series But even he became n convert, for
ComislSey sent him a season ticket TO the
American league games and before the
next July he was one of the regular
White Sox rooters.
During that same series, when the west
side and the south side were engaged al
most In civil war, there was an Irish
man named FauSh, Ballagh tlnnesan
better known as Fog who bad made
small fortune in trade on the west
side. and who, although he had never seen
a game, was one OF the most loyal sup
porters OF the west side team. On the
day OF the first game Fog" gloriously
arrayed. and with much money 10 wager,
was the center of a group of ardent west
siders assembled In one section OF the
south side stands Standing on his scat
he defled the White SoX supporters and
Haunted his money in their faces.
WAN hundred TO sixty on the west
side" he shouted.
WAN hundred to fifty. Wan hundred
to forty"
The south siders. who were not betting
on their team, ignored him. He shouted
challenged and yelled the praises Of the
west side. Presently the umpire brushed
off the plate and announced:
Ladies and gentlemen, the batteries
for today's game Will be Reubach and
King for the west side. Walsh and Suill-
van for the south side
For an instant Fog" binlSed hard
waverIng between loyalty to the west
side and love OF Ireland Then. leapng
UP again. he shouted.
''Walsh and Sullivan-thim's the byes
I meant. Wan hundrid TO sixty on the
south side
The interest in that struggle in Chi
cago was duplicated over the entire coun-
try the following year when Chicago and
New York engaged in their bitter contest
for the National league championship.
The presidential campaign was at It's
height, but the interest in the baseball
race 'overshadowed it. Norman Mack,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-27
The Science
of Baseball
Anecdotes and Incidents of Decisive
Struggles on the Diamond; Signs and
Systems Used by Championship Teams
All Rights Reserved.

Wright was the leading spirit. organized
professional baseball team called the
Red Stockings. which toured the country.
advertising the Queen City and demon
strating the commercial possibilities of
the game.
In 1871 a move was made which came
near bringing baseball into disgrace and
preventing its growth This was the Or
Professional Baseball Players. This body
established Itself in power. the players
governing the game and themselves. and
continued to rule until 1875. During that
players. gained control OF baseball. and
open gambling and the selling Of pools
was conducted In connection with many
parks. The confidence OF the public was
stItution baseball attracted little atten-
ton In the professional field. Grave
charges Of selling games, and In some
cases proof of crooked playing, result ed
dishonesty among players and man.
ayers.
The game suffered In popularity. even
In the amateur field. and the players ~ho
failures When in 1876 the National
League Of Professional Baseball clubs
succeeded to the control OF baseball and
took the game out OF the hands Of the
players, the promoters made a stern at
tempt to punish players guilty OF selling
games and TO stamp out milling as the
only means OF salvation OF the pastime.
William n. Hubert. presiden. of the
league. saved the game by a radical move
He surmarily expelled and placed upon
the blacklist every player accused of be-
Ing connected with the gambling frauds
whether the charges were proved or not
Some innocents may have suffered. but
Hubert drove the gamblers from the
parks.
Again baseball recovered and honrisf1ed
increasing steadily In popularity until
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aces, constituted game. The new
game had taken we'll in Brooklyn. which
was the center of athletic activity, and
the kniclserbocker rules prevailed among
towns and cities adopted the game, and
adapted the rules TO suit their own Views;
II was played entirely By amateurs, and
while called 'baseball' in some places
it continued TO be called the New York
game" or New York" until II was in
troduced into Boston by the Tri-Mountain
team In 1858.
Boston. having been a cricketing center,
objected TO the New York rules, changed
them and played the Massachusetts
game in which 100 runs constituted a
Boston and Cambridge show that some
times five days were required to oomplete
a match. Harvard teams engaged In the
Massachusetts game" soon after Its In
PRODUCTION In Boston and became leaders
In the new pastime.
With the organization of the National
Baseball association In 1858 the game be-
gan TO approach uniformity The rules
were amended and codlfied and baseball
quickly succeeded cricket as the popular
sport. From the first local patriotism
played an important part In the sport
Matches played for as high as $1,000 a
side were frequent. Brawls. clashes be-
tween partisan crowds and assaults upon
umpires are recorded even in those days.
In 1850 baseball had become almost ma
tional in scope. and the rules were con-
stantly modified as the play developed
necessities for restricting certain prac-
tices. The game spread westward rapid
~, and made much better progress In
westward cities than In the east. The
civil war, however. arrested the develop
ment of the new game for a time. 1t
played during the war in camps
all over the south, regiments and COM
panles having their teams. Sergeant
Dryden OF an Iowa regiment relates that
during the long waits In the trenches be-
fore Vicksburg. the Union and Confed-
crate soldiers jokingly challenged each
other to play baseball, and that during
the brief truces the men of his company
and the enemy played catch from line to
line.
I'VE were throwing and catching the
ball belonging to Our company team one
day" he relates. when firing commenced
afresh and the men dived into their holes,
There was a big fellow named Holleran
who. after we had got under cover. want
ed to go over and whip the Johnny Reb'
who had stolen our ball The next morn
Ing during lull In the firing that 'Reb'
yelled to US and In a minute the base
ball came flying over the works, so we
played n game on our next relief"
The returning soldiers gave the game
years the west became the important fac
tor In the development of baseball. Chi
cago Rockford and Freeport. ILL.,, Gin
cinnati. Youngstown. o., md many of the
small cities produced famous clubs. while
In the east. Providence. Troy. Lynn.
Mass. Hornelsville, N. Y, and cities
scarcely heard from since became promi-
nent because Of their teams.
The first move toward professionalizing
the game was made In 1864, when AL j.
and manufacturer of sporting goods, was
paid salary to play with the Philadel-
phia club, In the late sixties the Gin
cinnau Cricket club. of which Harry
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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CHAPTER 1.
THE GAME.

lis q game typicaily Amerl-
a BY more than 60,0 clubs
of approximately 100000 men
yer II years of age. with prac-
entire population OF the United
pecta tors.
D Is the most highly developed,
md logical form of athletic
oiyed By man, and the Until
tion of the one universal game,
brm of pastime OF contest in
!, use OF balls and sticks is
Il by every tribe of the hu-
low found on the face Of the
historical research reveals both
and In pictures that ball
I. been played from the earliest
'nes by every race OF man.
'.rawings dug out Of the Nile
show angular athletes tossing
1g balls. The Romans played
Spheres OF ivory. bone. wood
materials. We know that the
Is before Troy amused them
a contests at throwing balls.
q are our earliest ball players
y game hurting nuts at each
tops OF palm trees, II does
much OF a stretch of the imag-
,elieve that Abel probably gave
lEion In favor OF the Ham
a that Cain slew him with 81
AZ of the South Sea islands
The Hottentots use the ball
sn1es and their dances. The
Bushmen, long before the Brit
: them cricket. played a game
[ q bat and base. The tribes
We their games with balls, the
. use the ball In throwing
g. and American soldiers found
Z tribesmen OF Mindanao. in
Ines. natives whose ability to
Throw balls would have done
!. professional baseball player,
fzed nation has It's game. in
>all. either sphere or spheroid.
mon object. IT remained for
We American to develop and
the universal game. choose
I'M scores OF other games and
yreatest OF all pastimes-base-
j is the only one played which
ipon exact and scientific lines.
4 field Is laid out with such
= exactness, and with such
( OF the natural speed OF foot
of arm Of the human animal
he defensive team an exactly
se with the attackers. and 10
/ alta cker and defender TO ap-
Extreme limit Of human speed
in every close play. II first
feet from tho home
nG OF ninety, baseball would
scause In the present high de-
Of the game two feet addi-
tnce would make il almost
for q team to score. ii the
tween the bases was eighty
!. the scores would run into
les In almost every game. The
ave been so calculated and
] so distributed that each OF
IN on defense has exactly the
tround to cover that the fast
possibly can cover with a
lem in geometry. baseball, in
departments. may he reduced
ures. in algebra the laws of
',hance may be applied direct
TINE. AS a scientific pastlme,
e laws of physics and mathc.
game appeals 10 the studious.
lbition OF physical skill and
Il attracts all lovers OF ath-
Wing quick thinking. a high
l'eneralship and brainwork, II
Intention OF many who ordi-
nothing for sports or games.
nee was defined as mine durn
.ng n mall around and nine
fools chasing It," The deiinl-
y frIte, is erroneous, for. In
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-27
BY JOHN ]. EvERs AND HUGH S. FULLERTON
INTRODUCTION.

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Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

should keep in mind, and that is that
they shall condition themselves so that
no further strenuous work will be neces.
sary after the season starts. In other
words, to get into such condition that
after certain period players can de-
perfecbng of team work and not be
hurdened with any superfiuous flesh or
strained muscles. A fellow with a sore
arm cannot keep his mind on the sig
nails, and man may begin thinking
how his Charley horse hurts and lose a
ball game.
OF course, when this is accomplished
there Is also the essential requirement
essential in a ball player. and that is
that he shall be able to arise to the sit
uatlon when it presents itself and show
the necessary stamina and nerve to
carry him through these trying periods
The general public does not know how
much courage. moral and physical, is
necessary to carry a player through a
season, or the heavy strain under which
he labors at all times
Plenty of time should be gwen over
TO figuring out the intricate problems
of the game and studying up the good
points and weaknesses of opposing play.
ers. STRIVING TO overcome honestly any
little defects he may have will do more
to make q successful player than all the
instruction and advice that may be Civ.
en- by a manager, coach of player.
The player who forgets the game when
he takes Off his uniform is not a good
player, and the one who sits all even.
ing arguing with fellow on some point
of play generally outlssts him and be-
comes better man for himself and his
team.
Summing 1T all up, it really is up to
the player himself, after he becomes
a major league man, as to whether he
is going to become q big factor in the
game or remain just mediocre player.
Many players are satisfied when they
reach the major league and forget that
they must continue TO advance or 90
back, and self satisfaction has sent
more good men back to the minor
leagues than any other element in the
game. No man ever became star who
did not give the greater part of his
time 10 the study Of the game from all
angles, and he must keep it up or the
ones who do study will beat him out
The player who thinks he knows enough
is failure before he starts Good arms,
legs, hands and feet cannot play ball
If they arc disconnected from the brain
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lbry of the National Game; Its De-
>oment Into an Exact Mathemat-
sSport; Records of Great Plays
,PIayers.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-05-05
He Me. Marco spsd..

". de viIlemessanf. the founder If
the Paris Figaro. being insulted daily
In Belgian paper by a writer who's
nom De plume was Marco spads.
took the train 10 Brussels. with tro
friends and pair Of swords. On
bis arrival he wrote 10 Marco spada
that nc 2 =. m. sharp he should call
an him 10 arrange an encounter. on
the stroke Of 2 VI. de yIIIemassant ~.
peared nj the editorial Office and ask.
"a for Marco spada.y What was his
amnzemeDt on seeing an old lady. all
wrinkied and with curls above her
ears. appear from behind a small win.
dow and on hearing the reply, II am
Marco spada,' sir. and am ut your
ordersy'
One day an old war veteran limped
into a shop aud said 10 the druggist:
II want sotne medicine. some SORT
Of yermIfugc. suppose"
swell. colonel. where's the troubIeY'
asked the clerk sympatheticaIly
swhere does the seat Of your din.
Guilty seem TO beY'
I'm my wooden leg. mister. It's
gettin' al worm eaten Ladies' Home
Journal
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Sir hours. did you say. Mr.. Brandt"
HE Is right" Bartelmy said TO Ju-
dith. He has told you the truth to-
night-the absolute truth" He looked
at his watch. six hours. did you say.
Mfr. BRANDY" be asked.
Brand hsd gathered Judith In his
arms. She sighed contentedly as she
laid her head upon his shoulder
YES" be answered the judge.
Judge Bartelmy stood watching the
united couple for moment before h,
turned and walked away. muttering
as he went: ''Six hours. One may
travel far in these days In that time"
The great ship heaved and lunged
through the giant seas that swept over
her bows. out OF the freezing night. out
Of the cold northeast. The captain and
the first officer. dashed to opposite
ends Of the lofty bridge. choked In the
flying spune Of wind riven midocean
Somewhere deep toned bell told OF
the hour In the sailors accustomed
fashion. From somewhere out Of the
depths Of the vast grooming fabric
tumbled the men Of the watch who
were now to 60 on duty to relieve
their storm beaten fellows
And somewhere down In the shiv
ering. rearing hull a gaunt faced. hol-
low eyed man lay on the saffron hued
selvet cushions of narrow couch al
the side OF luxurious stateroom. He
was fully dressed In spite Of the late
ness Of the hour and Of the fact that
he was sleeping-just as he had been
the night Lefore. He tossed uneasily.
Sometimes he thrust his hands out
convulsively as though to ward % q
threatenin danger. He began to talk
lncoherentiy. The ship rolled. and a
tray containing dishes and an evening
meal that had gone untouched crashed
to the floor. The press-the printing
press-has started" be imuttetrd dhs-
jointedly as the SOUND Of the breaking
dishes penetrated into his weS,ie.
brain. His hand instinctlveiy crepf
under one Of the cushions. II grasped
and for moment fumbled with blue
steel object. which II drew weakly
forfh--a revolver. The shock Of the
cold steel reused the sleeper He
opened his eyes and gazed fascinatedly
at the instrument Of death With n
cry Of terror be relaxed his fngers.
and the object dropped to the door.
He groaned the groan Of lost soul In
the anguish Of its never ceasing tor.
ture. He .urned his face TO the wall
and tried in vain 10 close his eyes In
sleep
Judgment had been pronounced in
| the case Of JUDGE BARTELMY
VERSUS THE PEOPLE. WHEELER
BRAND AND THE ADVANCE"
THE ED.
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An Infant Mathematician.

Carl Frederick Gauss. the famous
German mathematician. when be was
three years old overheard his fatheI
making a calculation In regard to ths
wages Of some workmen. Young Car
suddenly looked up and called bis IA.
theirs attention TO the fact that be had
made an error In bis figures In one
place. This boy entered the gymna'
stun at the age Of eleven and master.
cd all studies with the, greatest rapid
Ity. SO that AT fourteen he was thor.
oughly well informed IN literature
science and philosophy. Ills mathr
NAUTICAL faculty increased rather thar
diminished with years. and much Of
modern mathematical science is due "a
his labor.
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win pensIon EemnIoyss.

New York, May 4.--The United
States Steel corporation announced
this afternoon that Il had set aside
eight millions which, with the -four
millions given by Mr.. Carnegie, will
be used az a fund TO pension steel
trust employees.
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Most Of ~ forget that how a mar
parts his principle Is much more I'm
portant than how he parts his hair.
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A woman may point the finger Of
scorn at a man. but she pokes II n
the eye Of another woman.
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The FOURTH
ESTATE
Novelixed by
FREDERICK R. T00MBS
Prom the Great Play
Of the Same Name by
Joseph Medill Patter-
son and Harriet Ford.
CnHv~,~~< inn ~. In...h AHAAua
Copyright. 1909. by Joseph risdill
Patterson and Harriet Ford.

IN The Fourth Estate" the
effectiveness of newspapers in
Jeoriessiy exposing political
and judicial corruption and the
safeguard they are to the public
are Interestingly and convinc-
ingly SET forth. A young. earnest
newspaper writer and editor is
the central figure, and his bat
lies with a dishonest United
States Judge against big odds and
against the cunningly under
handed Vaccinations of the iav-
yer lobbyist Dupuy form one of
the most valuable as well as
most entertaining pieces of fic-
hon of the day. That the false
Judges. daughter. the reigning
beauty in the fashionable life of
Q leading city should play a
sensational part in this gripping
story of strong honest men and
IF strong dishonest men. fight
ing each other in a war Of dol
lars, evidences the romantic
possibilities. of the narrative
This is a story of fod0y's
America. a fact story torn ont OF
iJe's book. dealing with the most
vital issues that confront every
one of US. Romance and hun,or
vie with stirring action for SUI
Premocy in this Instructive and
fascinating novel. which teaches
0t0f the path of duty is the path
to love and happiness and that
n success. nobly won, lie re-
wards of greater and more last.
6se value than sr a triumph ig-
sobly and more easily gained.
= Is
The judge nad Drawn few steps
sway from the pair during the scene
between fhem. He viewed with cal
culating satisfaction the battle that
his daughter was waging 20 valiantiy
In hi. behalf. and be had felt that not
even the young stole Brand could re-
sist this powerful and fnai appeal Of
the girl be loved. AT his daughters
hist ourcry he drew near to the editor.
Brand. are you humany be de-
handed strongly. pointing TO the pros
frsted girl with his walking stick.
Human. human. Judge Bartelmyr'
he exclaimed. You are true to your
self TO the end. You bring your daugh-
YER here so that by torturing me with
the sight Of her suffering you may es-
cape the penalty Of your thievery.
was willing she should think me heart.
less TO spare her the greater pain Of
knowing you as you are. But now you
bring her bere In her innocence 10 re.
peat g. me your lies. You're degrad'
ing her. dragging her down TO your
own Level. Just a. you did her mother
before her. II she lets you go on using
her IL wili H. with her ewes open"
Judith raised her bead amazediy.
What ere you sayingT she asked.
BraBd turned 70 her and then TO The