The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-08
CORNER IN SP0RTLAND|
Only One Giant
 Of 1903 Brigade
CRACK PLAYERS WHO HFJiPED M'GRAW INVADE NEW YORK HAVE PASSED OUT

In the transformation by which John McGraW made two pennant winning teams out of the Giants whom he round at his disposal when he jumped rom the wrecked Baltimore team to NeW C, fork over nine years ago. only Cnr1sty Mathewson has survived the ax and the scalpel, writes L. E. San porn in the Chicago Tribune One other member of the rejuvenated Giants of 1903 still is cutting major league ice. Roger Bresnahan, who caught Mathewson's fadeaway after accompanying McGraw to New York from Baltimore. and was a member of the champion teams of 1904 and 1905, obtained his freedom to become lead- CT Of forlorn hope in St. Louis, so missed share in the laurels of 1911. Besides these two, all the players under McGraw in 1903 have been dis carded. MathewsOn's associates in the twtrling business were McGinnity, the present Newark manager; Cronin, Miller and Taylor, the deaf mute Bresnahan had for helpers in the backstopping two veterans in Bower man and Warner. McGraw's old In- second, Babb at short and Lauder and Dunn at third. McGann put an end to his own life last summer while member of the Milwaukee team 1; Jack Dunn has made a success. of managing in Baltimore and the others dropped out of prominence: The out field was composed of Mertes, Van Haltren and George Browne, Mertes and Van Haltren are on Fielder Jones' Northwestern league umpire staff, and Browne was an Eastern Leaguer last season
 Of the splendid team with which Clarke Griffith carried the American Leagues invasion of New York up the hilltop grounds in 1903 not a man was left in. active service in the ma> jors last year. although Griffith him. self was a National League pilot. With Griffith on that invading team of highlande5s as. Srsshe were Jess Tannehill eran pitchers, and Wolfe and Deering as slab recruits. Howell lost chance to become an American League um- pire by the unfortunate scandal over Lajoie's batting averoge in 1910 Ches- bro is ''all in'' it is said, and Tame hill has a managers berth in the south. The catchers were O'ConnOr and Bovine, the former becoming man. ager at St. Louis for one year only Grifnth's outfield consisted of Keeler, Fultz, Lefty Davis and Mcfarland, of whom only Keeler continued in the thereafter. The inf1eld had Ganzel on first, Williams on second, Elberfeld at short and Conroy at third. Ganzel later managed cincinnatt and Koch ester. EIberfeld and Conroy have been let out this winter by Washing ton
 Boston had a team of champions in the American League in 1903, and it won again in 1904. but only three of the players who composed that outfit were at all active in the major lea gues last season. They were "Cy'' Young. Tom Hughes and Pat" Dougherty. On the pitching force with Young and Hughes were "Bill' Dineen, now an American League ar. bitrator; Gibson and Winter. Lou Criger did most of the catching with Duke Farrell. and Jake Stahl, the 1912 manager of the Boston team, as assistant backstops Stahl has not ing been out of it two different times for a year each. He was converted from a catcher to a first baseman in 1904. Lachance on first, Ferris on second, Parent at short. and Collins. manager and third baseman, made up the Boston infield of 1903. Of these. Parent did not leave the major ranks until he was let out by the White Sox last spring. The outfielders were Buck Freeman, holder of the rec. ord of 25 home runs in one season, which record Frank Schulte set out to beat last year.
 The other Boston team of 1903 had two members who were in the big circuit last year, Fred Penney, lately deposed as manager in favor of John Kling, was one of them, and Pat" Moran was the other Ienney. Ab- baticchio, Bonner and Gremunger made up the Boston infield that sea- son. with Cooley Carney and Dex- ter in the outfield. Platt, Pittinger, Willis and Malarkey were the pitch CTS with Kittredge catching, helped out by Dexter when necessary. Willis might have been in the game last year if he had not scorned the chance to become Cub when let out by the St. Louis Cardinals.
 Jimmy Sheckard and "Bill' Dah- len were the only players of the Brooklyn team of 1903 left in major circles last year and the Cub outfeld- CT was the only one of them able to play. Dahlen, after doing time at short stop in New York and Boston, return ed to the Dogders as manager. He played short in Brooklyn in 1903, With Sam Strang at third, Flood at sec. ond and Jack Doyle. late Nation al League umpire at first. Tim Jor- dan was utility man. McCreery. Dobbs and McCreedie helped Sheckard out in the garden. GarVln, Re1dy. Evans and oscar Jones did most of the pitch- ing and their backstops were Jack litzsch and Ritter.
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