The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-01

Copyright New York Herald
4 recent ball game played at the American
n League park. New York city, amiable
N looking giant in a gray suit and bright crimson
Y fourn-band, his head topped by panama
that had well and stil wearing. was
the centre of ndmiring group In corner Of the
grand stand The big fellow with the rosy cheeks
and debonalr Captain Adrian Consian-
tine Anson, anectionntcy known as Pop In the
days when he led his Chicago nine to victory in
many hard fought campaigns His companions
baseball celebrities of later vintage, and they
paying the most exclusive attention to what the
veteran was saying while waiting for the game to
be called
81 know-it's the common impression that there's
future for retired professional baseball player the
Captain observing. Now, that may be true as
a general proposition, but | don't mind telling you
there quite n number of exceptions Not every
who has put the best years of his life into the
game is fated 10 become the proprfcog OF a corner
gin mill set up the pins in a bowling alley.
Now there's Albert G.. Spalding; what about Al?
1 he's out for the United States Scnatorship from
California with mighty fair prospect Of making
good. Well. even II he doesn't get there the mere
fact that lac has tried is enough prove that Mt
least professional has refused believe that It
all over with him when he quit the game It's my
impression that Spaldng would have been consider
able Of man even II he hadn't gone into baseball
"M was one Of the first professional players ever
and the first ever spoke to- Now that / recall
it. acquaintance didn't begin In very promising
manner. l don't suppose two men ever came closer
to n scrimmage and missed than Spaldng and l on
that day of first meeting
"We both kids-Al might have been eighteen
and I was year or so his junior, although he had
been full aedged professional for couple of years
was only nm amateur at the time, but don't mind
telling you that then there wasn't for any
thing else besides baseball In my system, and my
father and my brother In the same condition
The old gentleman kept the Anson House. at Mar
shalltown, Iowa, but let the hotel business
Interfere with baseball. 1 had organized N home
team and we had been so lucky In our match games
with the State clubs that proposed to our folks TO
Invite the professional Forest Cltys OF Rockford III
then giving n series of exhibitions in Iowa to come
10 Marshalltown and be wiped off the earth
1t so happened that the Forest CtyS had nothing
better TO do and they accepted bid Al Spading
was pitcher for the visitors and his work was n
revelation to me. had seen anything 80 neat
In the baseball line and l was so taken with his essy
way of doing things that almost forgot TO play the
game His personal appearance and manner too
made great impression me He certainly was
one of the finest looking youngsters have ever seen
and took strong liking TO him at first sight
The Time That Albert G. Spalding Apoogzed
That good impression didn't last Before the
game was oVer-we getting pulyerlzcd and that
may have had something to do with 1T changed
my opinion In regard to the star pitcher The vlsi-
torS brought their umpire with them and after
htte be and al began to get coltish, the latter
pitcnhg as many freak balls as he wished without
oelng called l didn't approve of such foolisbness
but Kept mum until something occurred that made
me as mad as a March hare. Father was at the BAT
but he wouldn't hit at AIS wild ones and waited pa-
uen'y Tor the frisky pitcher get down TO business
flnahy Al let go Il vicious that just grazed the
olu genuemnns cheek. At that father threw down
thebat and walked toward AL with n stride that
"eahp business. L saw the fire In his eve md I was
with him In an instant
Spaiolns saw that he had put himself in tIcklish
"'"er ana were facing him and my
orother was on his way across the field to toln rs
anu nc began to crawl / fairly sizzling with
luue""t'o" anu wanted to beautify the young mans
features but the old gentleman wouldn't have It He
accepted the pitchers apology md tho ,o ,t
ON, the visitors beating us by a score or o5 10 .
Spaldmg didn't bear any grudge against mo ,I
'"ouso uon sec no" he could have helped feeling
"'ue sore Snoruy afterward the Rockford folk
uied To engage the three of us to play ON tb.ir t
lhe next season, and learned aftcrward that snsld
iN6 "au au'lsed them TO do It, OF course that made
me feel friendly towurd him again
Il went to Rockford and Al went 70 nitcb Co. .,
'SHN " plcD Tor The
BoStons saw but little Of him until the summer 80
1914 when the Athletic club, OF PhIudclpbio ot
"nlcn was then member, and the Bostonateam for
"hlch Spadiug was pitching. went over to tho otbor
side to show our British cousins that cricket WINS NOT
the only sport worth while. At that time All ,yas rs
garded as the best pitcher In the profession and was
great favorte with both press and public O,d
n"rr! CHADWICK the Father Of Baseball you know
once told me that in Judgment command Of the bnu
pIuck' endurance and nerve Al had no equal | viii
20 little further and say that he could dseoise =
change of pace In such manner ms TO deceive the