Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-18

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passed Philadelphia and took second
position. II certainly was an achieve
ment to be proud Of, and II you think
failed TO flap my wings and crow q
little you are not familiar with A. G.
Anson's makeup.
With the downfall of the Brother
hood thought, very naturally, that 1t
would be a comparatively easy matter
to strengthen the Chicago club ma
terially 1t didn't turn out that way.
didn't even get my old players back,
some of them retiring from the dia-
mond altogether, and others being
scattered far and wide among the va
rious league teams. That involved
constant lookout and anxiety on my
part to secure new players, / was
certainly easy game for the kid with
the baseball bug in those days.
didn't dare to refuse any applicant
try-out for fear that might be turn
ing down championship timber
The season of 1891 was almost al
bad year for baseball as Its prede-
cessor. A war broke out between the
National league and the American as
sociation because the latter refused to
abide by the terms OF the national
agreement The result was that sal
aries took soar upward. AT the
time good players were exceedingly
scarce and the demand was constantly
growing
So my team that year was again
sort OF experiment, but II turned out
to be a mighty successful one. Pfef-
fer came back to US, but he was no
longer the Pfeffer Of old. Ryan was
another prodigal son who returned to
his fathers house, but all the others
we're comparatively unknown to fame.
II proved to be very strong organ
izauon, and | am satisfied II would
have landed the pennant but for the
fact that the jealousy Of the old play
ers engendered by the Brotherhood re-
volt would not permit a team OF
youngsters, many OF whom were new
comers in the league, to carry off the
honors. | have never doubted that a
conspiracy was entered into to pre-
vent the pennant from going to US that
season, and that It was arranged that
New York should give enough games
to the Bostons TO throw the champion
ship to the Beaneaters at the last mo-
ment, leaving us in second place. We
made a whirlwind fight for the top
place and no fault could be laid at my
door or at that OF my players because
the Giants dropped enough games TO
the Boston club to prevent the honors
being gobbled by col. team.
Hutchinson, who did most OF our
tWirling that season. WAS topnotch-
er. He was graduate OF Yale, a gen
tleman II ever there was one, and q
player who used his head as well as
his hands when he was in the box.
Gumbert and Luby were both talent
ed players, and but for his reckless
ness the latter might have been a
star OF the first magnitude. Dahlen,
then on his first trip with us, was a
tower OF strength to the team, as
agile az a cat, sure catch and an eS-
ceptionally strong batter. The rest
OF the infeld and the outfeld were
away above the average in playing
ability
That race OF 1891 was one OF the
closest and most strenuous In the his
tory OF the league, Opening the sea
son In third place, we never went low
er, but out of the twenty.four weeks
which made up the season, we were
in first place for fifteen weeks, and
should have had no difficulty in main
tanning that pace to the close, and did
It practically, only losing on account
OF the combination already mentioned
want TO say right here, too that |
was not alone in my Judgment as to
the reason why we were not the final
winners. The shady method Of the
eastern clubs was commented on very
largely at the time by followers OF
!, the sport throughout the country, and
the newspapers all over the United
States condemned the trlckery. II was
tough though, when at the beginning
OF the closing week Chicago was in
the van by percentage OF victories
OF 62s to Boston .6l5 TO have New
J York make a present OF It's last games
: TO the Beaneaters for the clearly evi.
dent purpose of throwing US down. As
II was, we finished head and head
with the leaders, New York being
third, Philadelphia fourth, Cleveland
fifth, Brooklyn sixth, Cincinnati sew
enth and Pittsburg eighth.
Sentiment was no pronounced against
the New Yorks for their poor showing
made in these Boston games that they
felt It necessary to offer excuses. one