Arizona republican., 1910-09-04
SOME FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS OF
 THE NATIONAL GAME.
Ex- Owner of the New York National
 League Team-Prizefiehter Who Is Turned Lawyer-A Famous Amateur.
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York Chicago game. sitting in the back row is man with grizzled gray mustache, smoking one cigar after an other. He's all alone, you see, and he looks as if he'd experienced much
 trouble in his time Long ago he put up a few hundred dollars to establish the first New York baseball club. The game was hardly known to the masses then, but as soon as this man spent his money for a ball park away
 over on the East Sside baseball began
 to pay. Then he leased the old Polo grounds at 10th street and Fifth ave nue, where he made a tremendous sue cess. I remember a game played by the Detroits and the Giants there in 1887 when the crowd broke down the turnstiles and fences. Nobody could say just how many persons saw the game, but the crowd was so large that
 the players only had the diamond to themselves The profits of the New York club were so great that year that somebody or other became jealous. for not long after the board of aldermen
 ordered the cutting of 111th street | through the ground and the club had to move This man was game, how ever, and while the new Polo grounds was in course of construction at 155th street and Eighth avenue he took the Giants to St George, Staten Island, to play half d season at a big loss. When the season of 1889 was fin l ished at the new Polo grounds our old friend soon learned that all but three of the champion Giants had deserted him for the Brotherhood Then began q ruinous baseball war. which graddu- ally forced New York's pioneer mag nate to the wall and compelled him to retire to private business. But he is still fan.
 The square shOuldered stocky chap with a light mustache and blue gray eyes who is sitting not far away was one of the old fellows star players more than twenty years ago. He bobbed to the surface up in Rhode Is land as a pitcher first and soon com manded q good salary Unlike some of the Bugs and Rubes you read about he saved his money and studied nlShts until he was able to attend law school at Columbia. He played ball every year with great success, being su- Derb base runner and one of the first to make use of the bunt. In time as q New York player he drew d 5000 salary but kept on studying. The height of his ambition was reached when he managed a winner. Then without fuss ar feathers he announced that he was through with ball playing forever and he kept his word.
 .'The sixfooter with tanned face and pompadour hair is a royal rooter. He's all smiles and bows because he IS stlh a clever jollier. He doesn't like to be called an -prizefighter' because that doesn't sound we'll But he doesn't mind being referred to as a former boxing champion Probably no man ever lived who could handle his lists with greater skill, but strange to say he couldn't hit hard, neither could he stand up under a heavy facing. He was just a clever dancing master, so light on his feet that he could move faster than his shadow. But one day away out in Nevada he received a punch that robbed him of his title and mt him in the back number class.
 Heres another person who has been identified with pugisim but does
 n't care to talk about it any longer. He thought he was a fighter until a big glIy put him to sleep out in California Then he opened a collar and cuff store and struggled along until he saw a chance to manage a star heavyweight That afforded a chance for him to baSk in the limelight and incidentally gath CT a bunch of money.
 The stumpy little man who smiles whenever Chicago does anything has made a quick fortune out Of the na- tional game. He was clerk Tn durg store out in ohio twelve years ago and didn't know a ball from pat But when he became a newspaper Wrlt- CT he got wise all of a sudden lie had saved d few dollars and was anX- ions to invest in baseball, when he heard one day that a big major league club could be bought dirt cheap So h, hunted up a millionaire. borrowed S1OO 900. purchased the club and made S15O 900 the first year and paid back the loan. That was going some, l can tell you. but the little man wasn't sat isfied. With increased profits he borght the land on which his hall park is located and is now said to be worth half a million.
 
 hut here's one who is in class by himself. He might be called the sta tistical bug. for he reVels in baseball
 records. He keeps an elaborate score
 of each game. complies the batting and
 fielding averages of all the players m the big leagues. records the doings or tho minors and can tell you the ms tory of any man on the diamond. Hes got record book of some kind in eV- cry pocket and can settle almost any dispute. Don't get into an argument and offer to make bet with him un- less YOU know you are right before hand because he'll surely win your money.
 See that giant near the Giant . bench? He was a famous college pitch-
 CT fifteen years ago. and. he could nave
 been a star professional too. lie pitched for one of the New England universities and was a reigning sen
 sation. He faced the New Yorks on one occasion before the opening Of the championship season and he made record of which he still is proud. u was one of those dark days when speed counts for much. He had his wing III great working order and shot the bal over the plate like a rifle bullet. For nine innings the Giants tried yainly to | solve his puzzling delivery, but they