The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-27
st. Louis Player Ends Clarke's
Playing Career.
High One, Inside,'' Real Cause
of Retirement.
O'TOOLE'S ARM GONE
st. Paul Beauty Did Tt All to
Get Even.
Dan Despair to Stick 1t Out
With Lincoln Team.
O'TOOLE'S ARM GONE

Clarke as enc Of the greatest player
%nanagerS Of all times. It didn't marx
y-The veteran pilots finish so far as he
personally was concerned Persons
nearer and dearer to him than any fan
long had begged him to quit. Fear
that some day his daring and aggreS-
Riveness would meet with serious injury
had caused MS family TO plead with MIN
that he give up playing-that he take
his place among other old masters as
a bench manager ana that, IKE IeH
nfngs. Grif1th, McGraw, Chance and
DahIen, he wear his uniform for bench
privileges only
1t is said by many that when Sa!lee
s.beaned'' Clarke in that memorable
Sunday clash with the Cardinals II
was the coin that Tipped the future
destiny Of the Pirate boss 1t was Just
such a trick of the baseball fates that
Mrs Fred Clarke and her two young
daughters often had feared. For years
the great leader of pennant contendeFS
ana winners smiled and laughed away
these occasional fears and bore INJURY
after injury with apparent good grace
But the inevitable came.o 1t WASH
Sallee's fault 1t was the misfortune
Of both that Clarke, croWd1nS the piatS
as usual was caught by the fast IN
slider" and dropped senseless. 1t trou-
bied the Pirate manager for TWO Weeks
but there was no lasting III efIeSt. FRO
baby then, IL never before Fred Clarke
figured that in II years as a MAJOR
league ball player he had had enough
The close of his seventeenth year snow
age with Louisville and Pittsburg or
S26 He was keeping up that gait late
last season, having .324 for the year
that marked his last
FREQUENT pleadngs of his wife and ms
little daughter Muriel to give up play
True. he had acc emphasized great
iines. but not until 1909 did he sue
\ eed in fulfilling his most cherished
#ambition-a worlds championship. Ihey
looked for him to take OF the SPIKED
SHOES in the following year, out Freu
thought he could repeat.
Mrs. Clarke during the past year de-
eIared that enc of the haippiest days OF
her life would be the day that her " tEa
band declared he would give up the
game for al time. He met with ire
auent injuries early in the last playlls
season-then came the distressing rap
from Saslee.
TndeDendentlv veaIthy-prokably bet /
ter supplied and unineumbered than !
many of the so-called magnates IN OF,
ganized baseball today-notnlhg Stoou
IN ITred.s way this winter when he de-
cided to give up the game. He nrousnl
four remnants to this city and world |
championship ,.-.,,,.r |
Recently Fred vas quoted as having |
hot "a suits of clothes that he VIII
Hnever participate in another game on /
ball Pittsburg hopes he loses every /
bet he made, in this town of smoke ann /
money they simply can't imagine sucn
a thing as Clarke sitting on the pehe:h
when a ninth inning pinch wallop Is
needed. He probably never again VIII
NAV the outfie1d OF any other field put
the knack of slapping out a h1t-lt IN
the wood and in the blood-it VIII pc
mighty hard for him to resist. 80
ST Joe News-Press: According 70 tns
Drummer boss Wichita has two chances
10 get a Western league FRANCHISE lof
1912 If it shows the right spirit and comes
as it should
..-rhe Drummer boss has reference to
Lincoln and Des Moines. Isn't Lincoln
bit weary of that sort of advertising?
Every now and then some wise fellow
arises to remark that it would be an easy
task to fix ball game
'-HoW?' you query
why. all you would have to do IS 70
set next to the pitcher is almost the
oere is one thing that these wise fell
lows never take into account Ana Inal
stands on the mound. Every battle Is a
personal fight for him. It's douotiul
vf1sther q pitcher, prominent enough 70
he trusted with important game,
would remain fixed after you hau I
..f;~eds, him He gets out there and sees
roe slurrers coming up and immediate
Iv he is seized with the determination OF
showing them up" It's personal
T, nc at Marty O'Toole. They say that
his arm is in a bad way. Why because
OF the personal enInity he felt for every
man on the Minneapolis cIuo IN me
American association Now Marty ha9
- -oay-soDaI feeling against those men OF
the field. He would meet them soclahS
80 he inst as pleasant as he knew how.
T77eV1 we're his friends But on the fleld
If was different. O'Toole threw his arm
80 tvvfue to beat them And with
mighty little at stake so far as the popu-
See was concerned
zssrhere was a series late in August be
4-ean the st Paul and the Minneapolis
3@~m~ OF the American ASSOCIATION
OsToole was with the St Paul agrees
ffor hut had been purchased oy Barney /
TS-evFuss of the Pirates for the greatest
s,,-,, ever paid for a ball player.
O'Toole pitched the flrst EsIne OF s InS
series It was played on FRIDAY. ana
those Minneapolis players, ABOUT TN, lne
,9Ftiest sluggers in the league, gave MN
a touch Of high life: The great Marty ia$
80 las chased to the bench while the
game was still young
on Sunday he sought Manager heLley'
At 81 me hack at them" said Marty.
-rS,e manager was willing And O'Toole
u - Now what was he fighting for?
Re had been sold to the Pirates 1or
-a~o--5 breaking sum- 4e knew tAt-e nS
1917 - III Pittsburg before the end Of
- @eason The St. Paul team was with
80 a chance for the pennant- one Woutd
mink that ORIOLES interests lay VIII
- 1siffshurzr team and that ne would
s s.4 that he was still a minor and get
~ ~ rest that he could that he might
- in tiptop shape when ne joined the
sa4oT league aggregation
= y 81 ~ C'TooIe figure in that manner lie
- aof All that he thought was tlat
es [T1Iers had chased him from the slap
ana he wanted revenge he "9 s.l,.s,,e u
Ill Oi Tze vvent in on that Sunday after
rleoy, and under weather conditions ma
Vs.. Ear from ideal Rain was 1ainhS,
but O7TooIe never faltered- he palS Il
hs-sS- +I,an ever before in his life toF
the --t,, and the wet ball made 1t inposr
sibIe for him to get the preak On On lli s.f9n-