The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-17
FOLLOWERS OF (HANf
ARE WORRIED IS RUNOR
Will r. Leroy Chance Go To
the Bench and Direct His
Battlers? The Fans Say
mix"
MADE HIS CUBS PLAY
BRAINY BASEBALL
(By O. Z. Van Loan)

New York, June 1l.--Several times
this season the owly old followers OF
what we call the national pastime have
been seriously alarmed by the father.
less rumor that +. Leroy Chance, the
90 Bul Horse" of the Chicago outfit, is
about to sit in the shade and direct
his battlers from the bench.
"Is Chance to become a Bench Warm
erf" howl the headlines.
The fans hope not.
Frank Chance, Husk Chance, the
Peerless Leader, the Bow-legged wrang.
ler from Wranglersville, on--the---
benchi Mkt Perish the bare idea!
Players Of Franks ability are sci.
dom encountered even in country
where every town has a crack firstbase-
man. Field generals with Chances
stratgic brain are scarce as dodo eggs
and n dodo egg is the scarcest egg
"what is." Almost as scarce as a
real ranch egg in New York City. Long
may he be spared to amble around
Station A, grabbing of low throws and
Goodyearing after high ones like the
real ball player he surely is.
All close students OF the game--and
the game is developing students, who,
roughly speaking, are now figuring out
plays to the twentieth part of a see.
ond---admit that the thing which
put the Cubs in line for three pennants
was the handling given those Breezes
town Demons by their rough, husky
captain and manager. He made his men
play baseball. OF course he has some
brainy men to start with. The best
team captain in the business could not
take a team Of ivory.tops and do ary-
thing with them. II is well known in
the Big League that If player is
born with a half portion of mayonaise
dressing where the gray matter should
be, no amount of rousting and training
will do him any good. ball player
must be born with the stuff, to think
with, and Chance was fortunate in hav-
ing a few high intellectual foreheads
IN the pay roll.
(Yes, John Evers, you re one of the
boys I mean. Don't get excited Johnny
King, you re another one. Put down
your hand Mr.. Brown, ! see vou.)
But Chance got his brainy men TO
thinking together and they naturally
began TO PLAY TOGETHER. It was
4 big nine-part machine, with the main
,og acting as the engineer.
Certainly the Cubs had and still have
great pitchers, but great pitchers never
won pennant without the men be.
hind them who could give them a run
now and then. At best the pitcher is
IN the defensive end. His job is 10
the other fellows from making
100 many runs, and Of what use Is that
Il the players behind the pitcher can.
not tear in once in whine and make n
Few runs on their own accounti Look
1t Handsome Harry McIntire when he
was with the Brooklyn club' II the
Dodgers Aad ever made runs behind
'hai Doy, ne would have been one of IN
wonders Of the age. but did they do 1
yoi, yoil Hardly everl lie hgu'
On the short end of more l to o SCI
and 2 to l scores than any other
fortunate In the world.
II Is the team which does som
for the hard working pitcher WI
said finger is resting on th
which gets away with the pen
that was where Mr. Chance
broke into the movi'
and bumped the other teams
focus. They were everla,
Ing new STUFF on the Offer
the game. That little cral
Evers, than whom there
youth outside captivity, has