The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-07-20
cEFOSS He RETlREs FROM
Great NATIONAL GAME.
erisss Bits Of Base Bail Gathered
fson Among the Teams In
Big Leagues.

fianaeor Frank Chance. OF the Chi
cago Cubs. wants to win another pen
I.ant bafore he retires. Not a strange
ambition by any means. but Chance
should know the difficulties which
surround such a proposition. IL must
be plain to him that before he can
land another flag he must rebuild his
entire team. Ball players do not last
forever. and IL is a gamble when you
try to build up.
Really only a small percentage of
the young players who come up make
good. and when the great amount OF
competition Is taken into considera-
ton. there being sixteen major league
clubs. all anxious to strengthen, IL
must be plain that a single clubs
are rather slim.
II Is questionable whether there ia
smother instance where so many
young players of ability have been
picked up by n single club in the
course OF a year or so as has been
the case in Washington this season.
That may not happen again in a dec.
ade. so that Chance may have TO live
long while and remain identified
with the game in order TO realize his
ambition.
Hugh Jennings. of Detroit, is facing
the same proposition that has con-
fronted other managers OF champion
ship teams. His team Is deteriorat-
Ing. and he must rebuild IL. or the
entire lot now under Jennings there
are perhaps not more than five or six
who can be relied upon to help his
team The others must go and Young
men be secured 10 take their places.
IL is going 10 take time to make
these changes and keep the team a
winner. and il incidentally will be
Jennings first opportunity to show
whether he is capable OF building no
q team. II was a ready-made cham
pIonship outfit which was turned over
&c Jennings when he took the team
In 1907. He has made but few changes
since then. and some OF these were
by means of trading for seasoned ma
terial. Now he must develop young.
sters in order TO get back in the lime
light. and IL will be a new experience
for him.
Pitcher Slim Salee. OF the Sc
Louis Nationals. is a figure bug. Tho
lengthy Cardinal pitcher is a dope ar
fist and carries the figures for him
self and associates partly in his head
and mostly in a little book
Ask Sal who made base ball hit
az O'Clock last week and he can tell
you. Likewise he knows how many
games he has won and how many
were lost and the number of safeties
IN each.
The school room was never over.
burdened by Salee's presence. yet he
IS a student of his occupation far bet
ter than many whose station in life
permitted them 10 attend the institu-
ions % learning. Sal is an earnest
worker.
He makes no bones Of the fact that
his habits in previous years had been
against the best work. hut he takes =
lot Of pride now in the fact that he
never even enters a saloon When tho
athletes stop az European hotels Sal
never takes n business mans lunch"
because that necessitaies eating In
bar room. Instead he goes 70 a dairy
lunch
He has stsered clear ~ every detrl-
mental influence. and the tall. earnest
finger deserves lot Of credit.
A man in base hall ages rapidly
Five years before the public usually
age him about ton or Twelve in the
public mind Tom Hughes. ~ the
Washington Americans. gives an o.
lusfrafion ~ this Whenever Hughes
pitches some ono is sure 90 ask 10
hat is mo same Old Hugho- Who
used 90 pitch for Chicago. R04fon ard
New York. and when that idontifca-
ton d accepted tho remark b. made