The Washington herald., 1911-01-05
By WILLIAM PEET.

CInuatl IASt year, ana idlc IA JIG cSs'oAA
shipped to the Milwaukee club Of the
American Association. will most likely
be seen on Roger Bresnahan's st. Louis
Cardinals this spring.
Bresnahan has written for Cantwells s
terms. and these have been sent on. 1t
is expected that a contract viii be here
in a few days. and that the old George
town finger will go South with the Car
dinals next month.
Cantwell is one of those unlucky chaps
who break into the big leagues under
adverse conditions He has every re-
Quirement of successful finger. but in
nearly every game in which he started
for the Reds last year things broke badly
for him. The writer talked with Tom
several weeks ago and the big fellow said
that he felt sure with an even break or
luck he would give good account OF
himself next season.
Would you think it possible for
pitcher to lose two games in one day
without pitching a full inning In either
game or even retiring one batsman?
You might figure it out, but Will tell
the story as Fred Tenney related It to me,
says the Boston Globe.
Boston was playing a double-header in
Cincinnati. In the last half of the ninth
Cincinnati went to the bat with the Bos-
tons two runs in the lead and began to
touch up the pitcher so hard that, with no
one out, Tenney called in Wilhelm to
finish out the game.
The first four men up lined out safe
hits and won the game then and there.
Tenney, thinking that Wilhelm's punish
ment was one of the chance incidents of
baseball, sent him in to pitch the second
game. The first five men up made hits,
and those five safe wallopS scored enough
runs TO win the game.
Tenney told this incident to a group Of
old-timers at the recent meeting Of the
major leagues, and was voted the medal
without further competition.
One Of the chief sources of opposition
to the efforts of reformers to kill college
football has been the fact that if the
game dies every other sport in the calen-
dar will be curtailed, and some of them
wiped out.
Reason? Football furnishes the funds
for carrying on nearly every other pas
time. In a recent financial report of the
athletic association Of the University OF
Pennsylvania it was stated the gridiron
game netted So 000-a sum which will be
drawn upon to support rowing, baseball.
soccer, tennis, and all other sports save
basketball, which. for wonder. was
seif-supporting.
Similar conditions prevail at every other
university in the country. AS conse-
whim of the mollycoddle brigade to wipe
the game from the curriculum Of college
athletics.
Gordon Mackay. of the Philadelphia
Times, suggests that st. Louis give Har-
~ Wolverton a chance to manage their
ball club. He says:
Here's a wee bit of advice for the
gentlemen who recently purchased the
St Louis Brownbricks:. Look over Har-
ry Wolverton before you get ready to
hitch a manager to the pay roll. VOL
verton has been out in California, and
has made good. He has been in the
Eastern and Tri-State leagues, and he
has made good. Harry is temperament
ally a splendid manager. He has brains
and he has class every minute of the
time. AS hsrmoniZer, he has all the
advertised brands of salve looking like a
piece of walrus blubber. and he knows
bali player and where to get him. Look
him over carefully. Brownbrickers, be-
fore you pick anybody to get into the
pilot house.
Elmer Bates, the veteran Cleveland
scribe. presents the following little base
ball sermon:
One of the reforms of which baseball
is screly in need would have been writ
ten into the laws of the national game
long ere this. but for the untimely death
0f H9YrV Pnl1ian1 a fo - 10
National League. Mr.. Pulliam had an
ambition-and often gave voice to it in
Lersonal conversation-to make a name
for himself. second only to that Of Ban
Johnson, in the great undertaking of
saving the game from its would-be, al
belt unconscious, destroyers.
Mr.. johnson has put the open and
shut rowdies Of the diamond to rout: l
wish that I could be the means of
squefching those other abominations-the
coachers who seek to put the pitcher in
the air" remarked Mr.. Pulliam, in his
office, in the St James Building in New
York, shortly before his death. ..I shall
present the case to the National League
club owners at their next meeting and
urge immediate action"
Alas! before the National League cluh
owners were again assembled, Door Harry
Pulliam was sleeping the long s'.ep in
the family burying ground in Louisville.
while ieaderless and purposeless, the club
owners OF the parent organization were
giving more heed to their quarrels on a
new president than they were to any of
the erstwhile great commanders plans for
reform.
But at this time Of the year IL is inter.
esting to recall what Harry Pulliam said
10 MS visitor that day, two years ago.
when, sitting with him in the National
League Headquarters In New York. he
talked Of his plans to uplift the game nm
IN 1t should, indeed, be the fafrest ana l
squarest sport in the world.
The man ! am after and the man / |
I'm going to get" said Mr. Pulliam. sis
he yellow cur who gets in the coaching
box. puts up his hands to his mouth to |
Keep his profanity and his vulgarity from
the ears of the fans. and then |
bellows q lot of barroom abuse to the |
man IN the box.
Now. the unwritten law of the came
requtres the pitcher to accept all these |
whispered epithets and charges Of shock. |
ng immortality In silence, epithets ana /
mind you. that IL spoken Oh the l
feid would fully justify q man In the me |
Df q gun.
In this battle between the hard-work-
ng pitcher-out there trying, to sive his |
employers and the fans q fair run for |
heir money-and the lazy. coarse. brutal, /
huiiy-raggfng coacher-perhaps taking mo- /
Always tie Same.
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