The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-13
FIRST WORLDS PENAAAT
has GIVEN BOSTON By A
VERY ENTHUSIASTIC FAN
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fact Is Recalled by the Award Of
Chalmers Trophies to Players
Cobb and Schultz.
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'|HI-HIs DIXON SOME FAN.
That Present System Of Award
ing the Trophies Is Salts
factory Is Demonstrated.
|iI-HIe DIXON SOME FAN.

Having been given the suggestion
l.y the awards OF the Chalmers
Iophies TO Tyrus Cobb and Frank
Schultz. will the American and Ma
0onal leagues IT some future time b
living their leading players automo
bIles!
You're right. Ten thousand 10 one
hey won't.
But II they should ever take the no
Don TO do so, they would only be fol
loving precedent set for them by the
National Commission when II took the
honor OF presenting the worlds cham
Diohs with q pennant out OF the hands
q an enthusiastic fan and assumed
4 FOR itself.
Il was Arthur "Hi-IIr' Dixon. one
6f the grandost old fans the city OF
Boston has ever had, who gave the
I|rbt pennant to be flung to the breeze
from the fag-stan OF the premier
baseball club Of the world.
In the year 1904 "Hi-Hi' discovered
hat the title Of champs 10 which the
Boston American crew had beat the
Pittsbnrg Nationals in 1908. had been
about ali the recognition the Red Sex
Had received. So he had an enormous
silk pennant elblematic or the worlds
baseball premiership cut out and hung
ID the fiagstaff above that Of the
American league pennant. At that
time. Carl NJ. Green. who had the
10nor OF representing Mr.. Chalmers
"A Chicago when the trophy votes
we're opened. was the treasurer Of the
Boston club
This flag Of Dixon's was the very
trst worlds pennant. and the only
one ever presented by an individual.
Before the worlds champions had
been given the Temple cup. and after
|hat year the National Commission
provided for an annual gonfalOn.
This man HILL" who still lives IN
Boston. Is one Of the most interesting
men IN baseball history. He was 30
wealthy he could smoke half-buck
cigars and enjoy 'em, He used 10
|rafel around with the Boston club
A his own expense just for the fun Of
seeing the Trays and at the end OF
every argument in which the Red Sox
Had the last word, ~Hi-Hf' was there
with q box OF Havanas for his pets.
He always sat In the grandstand
wrapped In q shawl to keep on the
hold or to protect him from the sun
And dust ana he got wildly excited
About the games. He earned his nick
tamc. eHfHf IN the same way that
HuEhie Jennings acquired his "Eeh-
1hf Dixon's sHiHfs In q shrilI,
>crceching voice burst forth from the
crowds like steam calliope make
4 four syIIables. please, or wen mas
sacfee somebody like a steam cab
Hope 1T q Quaker meeting every time
The Sox scored
He was grand old fan
But to get away from ancient his
Tory, the fact that Cobb was awarded
ne Chalmers trophy by an absolutely
Unanimous decision Is very remark
|bIe. The votes OF the men who
awarded the trophy are kept secret.
Only Ken Milford, who was In charge
bf the commission, and Carl NJ. Green,
of Detroit who represented Mr.. ChaL
mers n Chicago. when the ballots
we're opened. know them, and they
are honor bound not to tell.
But there IL one thing they can't
keep. Every man in the bunch, ex-
fept Jack n. Cremer, who represented
Detroit. put aside whatever prejudices
they might have had in favor Of their
bwn toNnemen and voted IN accord.
bnee their honest conviction that Cobb
lead them all
This prejudice cuts more figure that
appears at first thought. II IL psyche.
logically correct that we grow to like
thet which We are accustomed to
nore than strange things Thus, the
rnen whom the members Of the COM
mission had been watching In their
own towns for many games could not
help but stand In the good graees. Yet
Lobb's supremacy was 80 marked thar
aII this prejudice was thrown TO the
winds. Undoubtedly, this record OF
1000 per cent will stand for many
years.
while one record was made, another
was broken. Eight sporting writer's
agreed on something.
Another pleasing feature OF this az.
fair n the fact that the advertising
eI1uenf Of the trophy has been min
IUixcd. Mr. Chalmers insists that the
prize be called the Chalmers trophy
and not the Chalmers Automobile.
Hugh Chalmers, into whose active
brain the trophy idea first seeped. "a
VA tuthueIastic baseball man. He Il
treat admirer Of batting. He want
~ 20 make some recognition OF high
class work IN this line and IN 1910
offered Chalmers car to the Ameri-