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

most expert batsman while as a scientific hitter he
had few superiOrS. He had brains and used them
IN 1S16 Al came TO the Chicago ouu and remained
with ii as manager secretary and president
lively until 1891 Hc and his brother and brother
in-law went into the sporting goods business at the
same time and made good all round He also organ
lied manufacturing company and became its presl-
dent Talk about n ball player being Gt for any
thing else. Why that man could have managed
dozen things at once. 1t Just because he hadn't
enough to do to use up all bis time that he organized
the Chicago and All America baseball tour around the
world In 1SSS-S9 Made success Of that didn't he?
don't mind telling you that he'll do exactly the same
thing if he breaks into the Senate Now I've been
associated with Al Spalding in the baseball business
for good many Years, and haven't always agreed
upon everything, but you take it from me that
he's mighty lot better qualified 10 be a Iawmaker
than many man that never pitched a curve for
living.
Don't you believe for minute that Al couldn't
hold his own when 1t came to addressing his fellow
Senators You have it me direct that he is one
of the best oifhand speakers / heard When wo
stopped over in Honolulu our round the world
trip King Kalakaua gave us a big reception I'm The
palace grounds The Attorney General OF Hawaii
welcomed us In very pretty speech but you ought
TO have heard AIS oratIon in reply Say honest |
don't believe old Cicero himself could have done bct-
ter. In Australia Spaldlng made several speeches
every one OF them top notchers. Oh he can crate all
right, and there's plenty Of meat In what he snvs II
NJ breaks into the Senate he'll leave lot of the other
fellows way behind when 1t comes to speechmaking
A Situation Too Complex for Spalding to
Manage.
never saw Spalding completely knocked down
and out bur once. IT round the world tour
when we were trying 10 play q game at Naples IL
was our first game ON European soil and we wanted
IL 10 nicely bu
owing to our ignorance of the language and the Ita
lans ignorance of the game. Al had been studyIng
l1ailan on the quiet ever since left Colombo and
oniteu states Minister Camphausen gave him lot of
coachlne as TO now things were to be managed during
'he game When we reached the Campo de Mario
"nere the show was TO be pulled or we found the
plnce hed With people not one of whom had ever
seen game of ball They swarmed over the field
IKE an army of grasshoppers. and It was with the
greatest difficulty that we cleared space sufficient
10 oeSln- Even after we began TO play the crowd
kept pouring Into the field making fielding well nigh
impossible and baUting dangerous
Al STOOD IL Tor while and then he began 10 boil
over 20 right on he shouted the players Car
roll was at the bat He hit and the ball Knocked
guinea senselcss Tint didn't seem to do n thing
but amuSe the crowd and they kept right on swarm
Ing all over the place. For three innings ncItbr ,d
scored In the fourth each got a man across tbo
plate In the fifth the All Americas increased their
Score Oy seven runs and then the crowd thinking the
game was over. piled NIL the field Spadne
broke loose and tried to clear the place so tbc pome
could 20 on but the louder he shouted and the more
he 1ourished his arms the more that crowd wouldn't
go back.
1T was right then and there that | hoard A ,nol,
use OF expression that In some respect. VOC ,ho
most original cuss word L heard The umnjre
mat day was John Tener. Say, what's thS mnttcr
with Tenerf He's another professional player tbat
didn't go into hole and draw the hole In after him
when he quit the game"
but, Captain Anson." inteIposcd one Of his audi
tors' we want TO hear what 1t was that Spalding
said"
Never mind what II Part of 1t was Italian
ahSno" some that he had picked up on the way to
brinolSi and guess he didn't know how tough II
sounded IN going 10 tell you something about John
iener' Hes one OF my Friends You know and I've
always been Interested In him They sov hos ukev