The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-23

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 The Chicago Evening Post indulges in the following prophecy:
 On the morning of the judgment, when
 friend Gabriel calls the game. He'll be somewhat disappointed when he
 cries one famous name; For in all those countless legions who will
 answer to the roll,
 There will be one fellow missing, and
 may peace be on his soul. There will be one man too busy to come
 In and learn his fate; He'll be working while we others try to
 horn In past the gate;
 For when Gabriel toots his trumpet and
 we all rise from the hay, Old Cy Young vii not be present-he'll be
 pitching ball that day.
 Johnny Evers has been playing third base for the Chicago Cubs and has the following to say about the relative diff culty of playing second and third base:
 Right now it strikes me that there is more luck in playing third base. You get them or you don't I mean by that the hot shots When one of those line drives or swift bounders come at yoa there isn't time to play the ball. You leap and knock the ball down if you 
 you so quickly that you can't get square crack at 1t.
 Playing the third base is pretty much of gamble. If the ball happens to be hit right at you then you get it. Other wise there is nothing doing.
 Down on second it is different. There you have to play the ball. come in or go back. That's one condition which makes the play at third more difficult than at second.
 There is whole lot more inside bass ball at second than there is at third. You play in for bunt or you play deep. There is no moving to right or left. When you are at second you have more oppor- tunities. You study the batter and wou play him accordingly Maybe you take step or two nearer second or a step or two nearer first.
 ''Nothing like that at third. You play in for a bunt or you play back for a clout.
 ''When 1t comes to throwing, third base is by fare more difficult than seconl. That is where you take the ball and re- turn it on the double steal. You have the same throw, or rather, a throw from the same distance, every time that you handle ball at third.
 And the difficulty is not in making the throw so much as it is that a man scarcely has enough to do to keep his arm in shape. It is this which makes 1t so much easier for man to injure his arm playing third.
 After playing both positions 1t is my opinion that second base overshadows third as a place for inside ball. There where a man has opportunities of apply ing his knowledge of batters. It is the position where he can play the ball as well as the batter At third a man at- tempts to stab fierce drive. If he sue ceeds all well and good, and if he doesn't he can turn and watch the outfielder chase it. It's hit or miss"
 Up in the wilds of Maine near the state ly city of East Sebago, in the Lumber mans league, the genial Franklin Adams, New York scribe, is resting and round- ing up the dope.
 A few days back he encountered a rabid Maine bug. With the following re- suits as outlined by his own inimitable fountain pen
 q meets q gazimbat daown tew tn villitch this mornin and I asks him what the Cubs done.
 Won the pennant. b'gosh" says he.
 "No," says I. ''I mean yestiddy.'
 Amt had time to follor 'em this year. says he. Thought ye meant last season. "
 Catcher Tom Needham of the Chicago Cubs has a new wrinkle for the fans to discuss. Since Tom has been called upon to do so much work of late, he began to look about for some scheme to pre- vent the sting of the ball on his gloved hand A piece of tough beefsteak does the trick, being placed inside the glove so that it lies between the leather and the palm of the hand. Tom says that it not only absorbs the shock, but at the same time keeps his hands cool. Charles H. Chance of LewistoGn, Ida ho, submits the following baseball rhyme:
 "The high brows who with scorn, re- fuse over a game of ball to enthuse who never, on a summers day. to the local ball park wend their way to watch a chg mpion pitchers smoke, and of the batter make joke, as the moundman throws a wicked drop or speedy one with an inward 'pop;' or who refuses to merit see in throwing a curve when it's ono and three;' or whose blood has never madly surged as a runner from the dust emerged and safe is from the umpire heard, upon a clean steal home from | third; he who has never heard of Gregg. l or knows what is meant by a perfect peg;' Kling, or Wagner, 'Matty' or Cole,