The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-26

game in New York one day against Chicago, and
runner started steal second base. 1t looked from
the bench If he had been touched out, but Lynch
shouted, 'Safep
1.-THE crowd started to throw anything that they
could lay their hands on, and pretty sore about
1t myself, as it cost the game.
"'On the level, did you touch him? asked Dan
Richardson when he came to the bench.
"'No. I missed him.
1.-THE crowd was still bowling, and particularly the
bunch behind our bench wanted to kill some one.
went out in front and shouted:-He never touched
him, and now If you want to fight any one, choose
mer
They were crazy then and followed Lynch and me
of the field after had lost the game. Finally Tom
turned and challenged any one Of them I can't lick
all of you at once he shouted, but any one Of your
THE toughest time l ever had with crowd was
in Kansas City where all the butchers herded In those
days. We had been playing close game and IN the
ninth inning Of my men knocked the ball over the
fence five feet fair and won it for u.s. Foul! Foul!
shouted the butchers, who had lot Of money bet on
"A New York man. Phil Powers was the umpire,
and they were laying for him after the game The
field was down in sort of a hole and We had to climb
up steps to get into the club house to dress.
big husky fellow in his shirt sleeves was waiting
for us at head of the stairs and in his hands was
baseball bat, while on his face was look that
showed he not keeping it for souvenir. Behind
stormed the mob, that looked as Il we were
going to get it way another.
Tin going up said.
Don't go up said Phil Powers he'll brain you
81 started up those steps wondering if would
come down them feet first. When got near the top
stuck out my hand to this big butcher and greeted
him with:-'How you? How'd you ike the gamer
He sheepishly shifted the bat to the other hand
and shook with me. The rest Of the players and
Powers followed up the stairs and we got into the
club but the crowd waited outside for US. was the
first to leave and they spotted me.
There he is yelled the big butcher with whom
had shaken hands but who had had a relapse, and
they all started after One hit me in the
with lump of mud and made run for it. That
had
Roofing" Back in 1887.
"They didn't use to root In the old days the way
they do now In 1887 took the New York club to
Chicago near the end of the season. and If we had
won two out of three games would have the
championship. The crowd came out with tin horns
and rattles and a brass band, and L never heard
much noise. 1t got my men all worked up and ex-
cited and lost two out of the three games and the
championship. That was the beginning of roofing,
and from this time its psychological value real
lied and managers began to use the crowds to rattle
opposing teams.
Il had pretty good luck in New York 1 won the
championship in 1888 and 1889 and the worlds cham.
pionship both those years. In 1888 1 beat Brooklyn
for the worlds championship and in 1889 beat st
Louis left the Giants in 1890
But want to speak Of one pitcher" declared Mr.
Mutrie with smile, land don't think that better
one ever lived. His name was Amos Rusie, and well
1 remember the deal that brought him to New York
John I. Brush owned the Indianapolis club at the
time, and the New York team paid $4,000 for five
players They were BaSsett a third baseman. RucE-
ley, catcher BOgart, right fielder and Glasscock
shortstOp, besides Rusie. The people laughed when
that dicker was made but what price would a man
like RuSie bring now?
ITO watch my leg action now you would never
think l was pedestrian would you?" asked "Smil-
ing Jeems," but while was in New Bedford some
one sent communication to the papers as Joke and
signed my name to it offering to walk ANYBODY for
the championship of Bristol county 1 was pestered
to death with a lot of challenges and finally made
a match with man named Walker to walk him
race of one hundred miles. His name should have
been enough to scare me, but he gave out in the
eighty seventh mile and / Then l defeated
Bill Halves and McGunnige the track. Lew
Brown, Of the Boston team, thought that he was a
walker, and he challenged me to match. fellow
named Curry Foley came down with Brown as his
trainer but Lew refused to obey his orders and in
sisted eating apple pie just before the race. The
result was bad defeat for Brown and he had to quit
in the twenty-thrd mile
This made Foley wild, for he blamed the pie, and
he offered to take up the race where Brown left on.
Come on said, and Foley started to race me. He
gave it up after seventeen miles, and the next place
he stopped was on cot. He was lying on, this cot
soaking his sore feet in hot water to reduce the
blisters on them when some one handed him a tele-
gram, the sender thinking that he was stin on the
track. The telegram read ~...s--.'- -
Stick to it, Foley, stick to ltr g.. 80. '....
Eyes, by ginger, III stick to itr declared Foley.
I'll stick to this cot and he did for two weeks.
What little of my early baseball career? g.
born in Chelsea, Mass, and sxty-six years old
My father a Scotchman and my mother q Yankee.
played cricket good deal when was boy, but up
to the time that was sixteen had never touched q
baseball. Some of the boys who had seen me play
cricket invited me to join ball club about this time
which was 1870 and the name of the first club /
played with the Dreadnaughts Of Chelsea. I
had not thought at that time Of making baseball my
profession. In 1875 became professional and took
charge of the Lewiston he) team, where started to
catch the first game. fellow named Denny Gala
han was pitching, and tried to stop foul tip. They
didn't have upholstery for the catcher in those days
and dOOrmat gloves and stopped that foul tip with
my collar bone. 1t gave way. So spent the rest OF
the season umpring with my arm in sling
81 went to Fall River the next and got $50 n
month / played shortstop there, having tired of
catching 1t was while at Fall River brought ont
George Gore and there is one achievement of which
l am proud. Gore was a big, raw boned countryman
from Saccarappa, Me- and the first part of his career
had been spent with the Portland club, but offered
him SO month, and he could not let this princeIv
salary get away from him. At first Gore did not show
but all at once he began hitting the ball so hard that
the felders moved back to the fence, and then thew
couldn't get his hits for most OF them went over In
two weeks he owned Fall River.
I'm 1879 went to New Bedford under Frank Ran
croft, now the business manager Of the Cincinnati
club Yes, he's as old that l had with me Corr
Harry Stovey, George Washington Bradley and Jake
Evans l hired Roger Connor, but in less than a
month Bancroft released him as worthless In spite
of my protest"