Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-20

Gone. but not forgotten, they say Of
a star major league player when he slips
from the glimmer of the big game lights
to the lower and less brilliant calcium
Of the bush leagues. but this phrase ap-
plies to one player perhaps better than 1t
ever fitted dozen others. That is Frank
IsbelI, once a Chicago Cub and then for
many years one Of the greatest players
who ever donned a Chicago White Sox
uniform.
When 'Issy" wasn't playing base hall
he was playing something else, which
consisted mostly of furnishing excite
ment and amusement to those around
him. There wasn't anything that he
would hesitate to do If 1t was necessary
to win a ball game, and 'Issy" liked to
win better than anything he ever did.
AS a story teller he was a seventeen
jeweled affair.
Isbell Joined the White Sox when they
started to be White Sox under Charley
Comiskey, at the time the American
tory and located a club in Chicago. In
cidentally, he started pulling stunts at
that time and he continued them until he
went to the Western League to become
owner of the Wichita club.
There was one play that "lssy pulled
which he delights in telling about 1t
saved the White Sox from q defeat, and
that, too, at the hands or bush league
team, which shows how hard lssy
would work to win.
II was his second year out with the SOx
and there were plenty of chances Tor the
team to engage in exhibition games, es-
pecially in the east, where no league
games are played on Sunday. the Sox
were scheduled to play in Newark, ana
most Of the players were pretty we'll tired
he nearing
Clark Griffith was manager. When the
team landed at the hotel In Newark TO
dress for the game some OF them begged
off, and finally Griffith decided to take a
chance and place a makeshift team In the
field against the Eastern Leaguers.- The
lineup decided upon was peach. Grln
played In right field under the name OF
Fielder Jones, Billy Sullivan showed as
Dutch Hartman at third base; JACK
Katoll, the pitcher. played first base as
Isben; newspaper scribe who accom-
panied the team was at second base, and
1t was a misfit aggregation for fair. old
joe Sugden, the catcher. and "Red
Harvey were about the only players who
appeared in their regular positions.
The game was played in the tanyards.
and big crowd filled the grandstand and
bleachers. When hostilities started wee
little hurler was on the mound against
the Sox. The wee person, whose name
was ScherZer, turned out TO De some
pitcn6f, TOT ne kept the N9oA "cii III
Things looked bad for the Chicagos after
eight innings had been played, for the
best they could do in that time was to
tab up one lonely run.
In the meantime Newark had gone
along nicely and had accumulated four.
and with only one round to go 1t look
ed like a beating for the Sox. Mr..
Scherzer's chest started to expand
when Shugart, the shortstop, stepped
up to the plate for the ninth. Shugart
singled and so did Mcfarland, the left
fielder, who followed him. Joe Sugden
was next Just as he swung at the
pitch some one In the bleachers started
something. The bleacherites abused
"Old Joe" scandalously for missing the
ball. and the next minute Joe was on
his way over to the bleachers looking
for the fellow. Over the fence went
the bleacherite to meet him and In a
minute the two were on the ground