Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-31

this, Callahan declares he is not kick
ing, and adds rather sareastically that
he is taking his medicine like a man.
Anyway, while Callahan was telling
what good sport he was and what
a poor sport Chance was, the Yam
KEGS, in the meantime, were fiogging
the White Sox into a submissive
state.
Hal Chase was in the game and the
prince" played In his usual clean,
clever style. He accepted every
chance without a semblance of an err
ror and he seemed to possess more
heart and spirit than he did when
with New York. His old friends in
the stands and bleachers gave him a
cheer or two, but there wasn't any
evidences of a demonstration. Chase
isn't Jackie Clark by any means.
Ray schalk is given credit Of
being the best backstop in the Amer
lean League. This is some honor
when the truth Is known that the
young man has not yet seen his
twentieth year. His future is before
him and his reputation, though great
now, is only In the making. He is a
wonder and is sure to grow In his
profession. Just at present Jimmy
Archer, perhaps, is better man than
Schalk behind the bat, but Archer's
days are beginning to count while
Schalk has his own little world to
conquer.
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Good catchers are not plentiful. by
any means; rather they are scarce.
There isn't topnotcher in the In
ternational League, although Burns,
of Montreal, looks promising. In
the American League, outside of
Schalk, there is Ed Sweeney. of the
Yankees. After Sweeney, all the other
catchers fit in anywhere. In the Ma
tional League. you go to Archer as
the King. Like Stanage In the
American League there is also Mey-
ers in the National League, but the
men who stand out and above In
their profession today are surely
Archer and Schalk.
O.
Baseball magnates will no doubt
soon endeavor to find a means to pre-
vent players from indulging In vari-
Gus escapades while not engaged in
their pursuits on the diamond. Now
and then a ball player becomes in
1ured through some hobby or pleasure
and the club is the one to suffer. Fit
or not. the player receives his pay
envelope the first and fifteenth of
each and every month, yet most play
ers are rather more careless than
careful when off the field of action.
Take, for example, the injury to RUDE
cinnati club. He was riding a motor
cycle the other day when the accident
happened and nov he is In a hos
pital at Cincy in a precarious condi-
ton. He was asked and pleaded with
by his employers to stop riding the
machine, but he wouldn't do it and
now he is suffering conclusion of the
brain and his club is suffering the
loss of its best pitcher. In the case
of Benton, who was warned by
Garry Hermann, the owner of the
Cincinnati franchise, time and time
again, 1t Is possible that nothing in
a financial way will be done for the
player. Hermann, who Is a liberalist
of the highest order, Is sore because
Benton failed to recognize the warn
ings. The method in such a case
would be to suspend the player while
he is incapacitated and then reinstate
cruel on the employee, yet the player
never considered his employers,
disobeying their requests. AS a gem
eral thing, though. the club owners
make rash threats and then overdo
themselves in their kindness to their
men. The ball player is hero and
he is pretty we'll taken care of all
around.
c.
The Baseball Players Fraternity
isn't satisfied by a long shot in the
manner in which the complaint of Ty
Cobb that a fan in the grandstand in
Philadelphia was annoying him and
abusing him was followed up. Cobb
after taking the abuse from the fan
for several innings walked right up
to the stand and pointed out the
culprit. According to the promises of
Ban Johnson, president of the Amer
lean League, and also the club own
ers, absolute protection from just
such abuses as Cobb suffered was
guaranteed. Now, however, at the
very first opportunity to show their
good faith the Philadelphia club off,
Gals fell to come through and make
good by removing the Objectionable
character. If that is to be the plan
followed in the future it is not I'M
likely that some of the ball players
will leap into the stand, as Cobb did
in New York. and which act brought
about the famous promise which was
so vigorously ignored, and gave the
offender his just deserts. OF all the
evils at baseball games the fresh"
fan and the ''rowdy" fan are the
| limit. Some laugh at their ridiculous
ness and they take it for an appre-
citation of merit. Others say nothing
and simply put up with the tormen-
tors and pests. The players may not
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