Evening journal., 1910-11-18
WHAT OLD TIME
STARS ARE DOING
Many Are at the Head Of
Prosperous Businesses
in Big Cities
RAISINs. ETC

How many times during a season
do we hear about the past perform
ances of such masters Of the national
game as Amos Rusie, Jack Glasscock,
Mike Tiernan and hundred others?
How many times are We told that
those stars were far brighter than
any Of the stellar lights Of present
day baseball?
What has become Of these erstwhile
popular idols. Like any other famous
public individuals private life soon en-
CULTS them i'm its secretive exclusive
ness. and they are forgotten for the
most part and certainly lost.
Father Time. with his merciless
scythe, has claimed many Of them In
collecting his toll. Others are active
" engaged In business and making
good, we are informed, and still others
are retired, watching from the cush-
ioned seat of prosperity the activities
of younger generations.
Occasionally they bob up. Are met
by former admirers when their PROV
ess on the ball field was the same
magnetic power that attracts, but
awes at the same time. They are
grizzled and gray, but the clean ath-
letic life led by some of them has
dehed the ravages of waning years.
and the lustrous fire Of agility still
shines in their eyes.
They have followed baseball in its
growth. They are thoroughly con-
versant with many changes wrought
I'm the style of play, which we have
termed inside" baseball, and which
has taken the place of the old "hit-it-
as-fer-as-ye-kin" game more familiar
to them.
Mickey Welch still carries his IA
nous smile around Holyoke, Mass,
where he Is conducting a hotel, and
all the money that passes into the
cash register is needed to clothe and
feed the brood of Welches, which is
of a size indorsed by Colonel Roose-
velt.
Tim Keefe, when not collecting
rents in Cambridge, Mass, has time to
talk baseball. Roger Conner, the man
who could chit them a mile" when he
played with the Giants, is about the
best fixed of the former stars. Roger
invester his earnings in land in Wa
terbury, Conn. and up there they say
he owns half the town.
Mike Tiernan is In New York He
is not a man Of wealth, but never will
be in want. How can the old-time
fans ever forget "Silent Mike?" How
he could bingle them on a line for the
circuit Many game was won on
the Polo Grounds by Mike.
And surely you remember George
Gore. the man who had a leg as big
as the leg of a piano? George could
hit them on the nose in the good old
days. George is located In a small
town in New York State, but makes
FREQUENT trips to the city TO see the
Giants play.
Brush aside the cobwebs and let us
Introduce "Pebbly" Jack Glasscock
Really IL doesn't seem as If fifteen
years had passed since he was cavort-
ing around the infield picking the
pebbles out of the sand when not
stopping those sizzling grass cutters
\ that the sluggers used TO nit. Glass
I cock went back to his trade as car
penter when he got through as pal
/ player, and now he Is one OF the lead
ing builders in Wheeling, W. va.
Jouett eMekin. Remember him.
Don't you recall the noise that was
made throughout the circuit when
tney secured Meeklu anu fdiiChf ths
crack battery from Washington, and
brought them to New York? Meek
is enjoying life in New Albany, Ind.
where his earnings from baseball arc
we'll invested in real estate.
Amos Rusie, whom many consider
10 have been a better pitcher thar
Mathewson. had a short career. Amos
was attracted by the white lights o.
New York. He is back at his home
in Muncie. Ind. but unlike his former
team mates, Amos has 10 work hard
10 hours a day to keep going. Whai
a great future this pitcher had and
how he abused his chances. But hs
will always live in the memory Of the
fans.
Charles Bassett. who once held al
infleld position in New York. is al
Pawtucket, r. I. He is we'll pre-
served and runs over 70 New Yorl
occasionally TO look over the pasture
he once Krazed on.