The Washington herald., 1911-01-10
By WILLIAM PEET.

meets this winter, those under the aus
pices of Georgetown and George WASH
ington, as Manager Mike" Stuart Will
not attempt to run the Federal games.
Mr.. Stuart promises to issue state
ment in. a few days explaining why
the Federal meet has been abandoned.
The recent death of DR.. D. E. Wiber.
president Of the South Atlantic A A. u,
had considerable to do with the calling
- OF of the Federal meet, for it was under
stood that the games this year would
be held jointly under the auspices of the
Washington Grove Athletic Association
and Mr.. Stuart. Or in other words, DR..
Wiber and Mr.. Stuart proposed to as
sumo all responsibility and swing the
meet either one week before the George
town games or a week later. and now
that DR.. Wiber has gone, Mr.. Stuart does
not feel like running the affair single
handed, as last year the profits were
small and not worth the time spent in
handling such big proposition.
1t is probable that next winter the
Washington Grove A. A. will make a bid
for the Federal games and see them
through. Whether Mr. Stuart will lend
his aid is not known.
Another drawback was in obtaining
Convention Hall. This place had been
hired during the last three weeks in
February for a big automobile show.
and it is doubtful if it could be gotten
by the management of the Federal games
on the dates most acceptable to the
promoters.
The withdrawal of the Federal meet
this year means an extra boost to the
games planned by Georgetown and by
George Washington, both Of which should
break all previous attendance records
Doc" White, our esteemed fellow
citizen, was given great hand at
Chase's last night. Every person in the
house was Docs friend, and ne was
kept busy answering curtain calls. By
the way, his act is a corker, and worth
q place on any vaudeville stage.
Jimmy Block, formerly a Miller CATCH
er, but later Of the White Sox. says the
Minneapolis Journal, is now working as
q chauffeur TO a brick wheelbarrow in
Milwaukee, For James is now a married
man and his father-in-law is a building
contractor.
They say that, clad in blue jumpers
and the inevitable cigarette, Jimmy is
seeking to prove to his daddy-in-law that
he is a real Industrious youth, and
Milwaukee writer says James is laying
brick and rustling a hod with the other
red-necks at the usual stipend"
But the writer fails to note that Jimmy
is probably taking bricks to the man who
wants a plumb line and is laying red
bricks where the architects plans call
for white ones.
Elmer Bates. of the Cleveland Leader,
tells an interesting story of tanning bee
during one of the annual meetings in
New York He says: At one of the
recent winter meetings of the baseball
men in New York there was in attend
ance an unusually large number of play
ers. Many of them were there for busi-
ness: many others had been attracted by
curiosity only. Many of them were vet
Grams, retired from the field of active
duty-many others were just then enjoy
ing worldwide fame; many others were
simply future greats While the club
owners We're in session upstairs in Par
lor NJ of the old Fifth Avenue, the play
ers young and old. would assemble in
the famous marble corridor just beyond
the amen corner and talk about the game
the game of to-day. the game of the
past. and the game of the future.
Always at these sessions would be sure
TO arise the old, old argument about
the evolution of the game in speed and
in skill, and the question as to whether
the players of to-day actually
perior to those of a decade or two ago.
Tom Mccarthy, once the great right
fielder of the Boston club: John NJ. Ward.
pitcher and shortstop for the Providence
and New York clubs when the game was
young; Tom Tucker. the veteran first
baseman with the foghorn voice, and
score of others.
As the old. old argument began.
young man, who had been pitching half
the season for the Jersey City club, re-
marked:
The man who classes the ball players
Of the SOS with the ball players of to-day
fails to keep abreast of the times. The
world is marching on, and baseball play
ers keep pace with the procession The
ball players of many years ago were good
but the ball players of day are infinitely
better. So it is everywhere. In every
phase Of human life and human endeavor
the men of to-day are far and away
ahead of the men of yesterday
Old tom" Mccarthy, than whom no
brainier outielder ever lived, listened to
this outburst with wonderful patience
Then he turned to the young man and
said:
Probably you're right. my youthful
friend. 1 haven't any right to say. But
would you want to say that we have
recently had any better Presidents than
Lincofn?''
There was no answer.
ANY better orators than Webster?
Nary a word from the young pitcher.
ANY better preachers than Beecher
and Spurgeon?'
Still no reply.
ANY better editors than Greeley, Ray
n,ond, and Dana? Any Drawer generals
than Grant and Lee? Any better poets
than Longfellow and Tennyson? Any
better"
Hold on" said the young twirler,
I'll buy. I forgot those old chaps"
That's all right" replied Mccarthy,
I'll buy, too. but let me suggest some
thing for your mature consideration.
When you're praising the great players Of
to-day. don't forget the Ewings. the
KeIleys. the Fergusons, the Stoveys, the
Careys. the Dunlaps, the Langes, the
McAleers. the Dennys. and the other
pioneers OF the game. They could all
play ball-a little"
The Philadelphia North American Sun.
cay irinted the following spotiights:
Barney Dreyfuss says that the new
National League schedule win have 4 |
mileage reduction of 1900 miles. What
has the league done? Dropped 81. Louis? |
Connie Mack won't return home until
Always the Same.
Tharnse