Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-28

day, and it is believed that he rode
that last lap in about Is S-5 seconds.
That is very fast, but so was
Kramer Sunday.
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Referee Ross is looking for goats"
and he pulled new one Sunday. Kra
mer finished third in the five-mile
race, but he came through on the
sent him back to fourth position
"just to stir up the monkeys"
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With the Chicago Cubs up there
fighting with the New York Giants,
| the fans of yesteryear are beginning
to recall the Cubs of other days. 1t
isn't so long ago that the Chicago
team was the most famous in the
world. Every fan knew, or thought
he knew. everything about Frank
Chance and his mighty men That
infield was a marvel and poems and
songs have been written about Think
er and Evers and Chance Gradually,
however, the men who made the Chi
cago club the greatest in their day
faded, one by one, out of the lime
light On that great old Cub team
were familiar names to the fans Of
that period Though not so very long
ago, it is doubtful if many of the fans
of today could rattle off the list and
recall the men who played such won
derful ball
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! Unlike most successful ball clubs,
every member of the Cubs was an
Individual star Let us go down the
| line and see how the old team looks
in print:
Slagle centre field.
Sheckard, left field.
Tinker, shortstop.
Chance, first base.
Steinfeldt, third base
/ Schultz, right field.
Evers, second base
King, catcher.
Brown, pitcher.
Reulbaeh, pitcher.
overall, pitcher.
Pfiester, pitcher.
Hoffman, utility.
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There they are for you-all the
familiar names of the great Cub
team. And but one man is left with
the Chicago Club--the clever and able
Schultz. He is still playing the game,
but he is perhaps not long for the big
leagues. In telling about the famous
Cubs, Charles e. Lorett, of the Chi
cago Baseball World, gives the fol-
lowing short history as to where the
famous Cubs of yesterday are gone:
Slagle, who led off that famous bat
ting list, was rapidly lost to base
balloon He is out of it forever.
Sheckard has dropped to the Ameri.
can Association As it is needless to
, remark. Joe Tinker virtually started
the Federal League and now heads
the league-leading Chifed club. Frank
Chance is managing the Yankees.
Steinfeldt, who dropped from the top
of the heap to the bottom so sudden
ly, no longer is playing ball Evers
is doing his best for the Boston
Braves-a peppery man as of old.
King, the marvel, no longer adorns
the diamond. He mans a billiard hall
in Kansas City. Old Ed Reulbach is
with the Brooklyn Nationals-but is
not at his best by any means, Nor
decai Brown, the three-fingered
twirler, is with the st. Louis Feds as
; manager. and has not proven the
: most brilliant executive, although he
has much of his old-time cunning.
Artie Holman is frolioking about
with the Broollfeds under Bill Brad
ley.
: So, there you are The old Cubs
: fare out of it, all right but we must
) admit that the Cubs of today are
, giving us mighty good article of
: baseball.
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, Why, | do not know, but the opinion
is rather general that a ball team
isn't much of a ball team. unless there
t are a few snappy young Irlshmen
l around somewhere. This was not so
t at all, at all, with the Cubs. Just one
I, lone Irishman was mixed up in the
galaxy of notables. Most Of them
t were German or near German, and
3 yet they won pennants and world S
/ series with only the snappy little
! TobrY,x. Euarr ,.aurasantinar tho Irish
r race. However, 1t was said Of Evers
: that he was worth a dozen men on
e that Cub team. He was the pivot of