Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
RAINY DAY INTERVIEW
C0MMYS STAR ROLE
Master of White S0x in Mono
Iogue on "WorId's Series,
Past and Present."
From the Chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Worlds Series, Past and Present.
was the subject of a monologue delivered
by Fra Charlatus Comiskey for the ben
eft of an audience of frenzied, dripping
war scribes yesterday afternoon while
the skies wept in sympathy with the
humbled Cubs. as B. NJ. Clay, leading
clouter in the Sob and Piff1e League
might say. and put the watery kibosh on
the fourth engagement in the Big
Slaughter.
RELOCATING Fra Elbertus to the supper
bill class, his silvery gray locks and
Roycrofter tie giving philosophic author
ity to his remarks. the White Sox Fra
expostulated to wit:
''The Athletics have wrecked the Cub
machine. The mechanism began to creak
the day Johnny Evers was injured II
Johnny couldn't hit 100 and fielded like
bush Lacquer. his presence among a lot
Of youngsters and second-raters would
make them perform like champions His
magnetism is wonderful. His dynamic
qualities are generated into the entire
West Side team. He is fighter He
will be a fighter ten years from now
For Evers is built of nerve and sinews.
az t'idl w llol lH1Hk With ENeTS
playing second that the rout of the Cubs
could have been stopped. Age has al
ways been forced to bow to the suprem-
acy OF youth. Connie Mack has Won
derful team Of ambitious, fast, deter
mined youngsters. Their hitting is mar
velous. Before Thursdays game ! had
dreams Of playing worlds series in 1911
on the South Side in park that is better
suited to seat the fhrOnoS
out to witness such games than any
other In the country. That dream does not
look so rosy today. Mack team will be
raster, more dangerous aggregation
next season than II was this, and il Will
take lot of patience and lot of money
to recruit a club to defeat it.
The receipts from three games al
ready played show how base ball has
grown in popularity since I led the ST
Louis Browns to victory twenty-five years
ago. The share of each PLAYER on the
winning team to date amounts to over
Sl.Jo. In 1885 each of the Browns re-
ceived in the neighborhood of SIG Why
the cushion boy out at the West Side
cleans up more than that now. We di-
vided little more in 1885, for although we
played winner take all the players on the
two teams cared little for the money,
being out to win. and with the execution
or Pfeffer, Robinson, Arson and myself
the winners split their shares with the
losers.
The loyalty of the players for one an
other has made base ball the most honest
sport in the world. The Cubs and Ath-
letlcs are not out fighting for the money
that they will receive. They are fighting
to win. That is all any good ball PLAYER
is fighting for 1t is intuition. He starts
hghting for. victory on the prairie lot and
never stops fighting until he is too old to
play. That is what makes them loyal
to one another. They are fighting for
the same thing Not man on the Cubs
who would not he willing to break leg or
arm in order To win tomorrow. If his
own brother was on the other side he
might spike him, iniure him i'm his ardor
to win In his stanch loyalty to the
other players. Why"
Then some disagreeable mimrod low
cred the curtain and ended the mono
logue by inauiring about the plans for
the Mercer hunting expedition that Will
start Sunday night. twenty strong in 4
special sleeper and dining car. for the
wilds of the northern woods.