El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30


Pack in 1907. 1905 and 1903. when the
Detroit Tigers swept every Ili mus ~ - ny e
American league before them they nad a
bsii cIub that was figured. at the time, as
one of the youngest and 1aIesl IN DSao y ~
history 1t was predicted then that the IL
ger Aggregation. as it was constituted "ou4u
last for many years. .,--.-
But today. Of that bunch OF % SLllgSs9
who grabbed off the 1907 pennanI Lor De-
trOit, only two men remain remain III stssSa the
foru-CObb and Crawford otanase' IIiS
catcher, who joined them IN 1Sto' 80 Pb
the roster, and so are MoIl4lIeS sf aiI p III IN
who joined year later Ihese 4lEe az ~
that remains Of the HUNDREDS on Pll 80 elS
five alone have survived the crowd lnau
showed its heels to the other American
leaguers a half dozen years ago
Where Is Cub "AIachine?"
Who hasn't heard Of the wonderful Cub
machine-the baseball OUTFIT that aI"ays
viii be regarded as one OF me sIeSlssl 80 s5e
most wonderful in baseball history I. N 15vo,
1907. 1903 and 1910 it LANDED al me GIesl
Of the National league-and landed there
without much exertiOn- Except IN 1VOo. ~
those DAYS it looked as though that grand
more But what has happened2 The ma
chine has been smashed, its main cogs re-
moved and Of the wonderful club that nuns
Up so many records in 1SUo' 4SOl- alu A5yo,
only one man renains--t rank 9cnuite' .l-9
veteran outfielder, ANA IL s0ul1l ~, De - -
prising if he were shunted OIL 70 Lne minors
before the end of the year
In 191G-less than four seasons ago-lhe
machine for the most part, was intact ana
then disintegratiOn began ms alue4 ~
the experimenting Of one Charles WeDD
Murphy wrecked the works, and OF that
Schultz stiu wear the Cub uniforms
Time Touches Brooklyn and Pitts6urg.
The Brooklyn club won Ine NalloheL
league pennant in 1900, surprising as Il
may seem. The team was maue up OF some
wonderful ball players OUT llAl5 Aas Sy--
Iected its toll and every man VINO was on
that team at that time has retired from
me Pfttsburg Pirates gathered together
a great club in 1901 1902 and 1903, and an
nexed three pennants in row only one
man still fingers in tho lineup And his
name is Wagner. Fred Clarke, manager Of
the club now, was a player IN those DAY s,
but he plays no longer age mas stlI i
his joints and dimmed ms wonderful DaI-
ting orb.
only Nathewson and wiltse. pitchers re
main of the collection Of ball players lnaL
brought the pennant to New YORK IN 1913
and 1905. There are only four men on the
Pirates payroll today who were there IN 1912
when the Pittsburgers nabbed the National
league bunting and also the world cham
pio1s6fp. Those men are pitcher Adams.
catcher Gibson, Old Man wagner and
Red Sex show Entire Change.
There is not one man in the Red Sox line
up today who was with the asgIesalloll
that won the pennant in 1903 All the stars
Of those days have gone either to the dis
card TO the minors or 70 their graves ~
Walsh is the sole survivor Of the world
champion White Sox team Of 1896, while
Bender, Plank and Harry Davis, who no
longer plays but acts as scout and coach.
are the remains Of the Athletic team that
breezed along to a world championship in
In 1912 when the Giants won the National
league pennant anu -Nrced the Red SOX to
go eight games 20 win the world hOnors,
McGraw had q team that looked IS though
it would hold together for many years
It was fast combination and made up
principally Of youth Yet today more than
half Of the men who grabbed off a share Of
the Giants spoils are wearing Giant urli-
forms no longer Only II men remain Of
the IS who assisted McGraw. in harpoOn-
ing the National league bunting
Not a man remains either in the big
league or in White S0x uniform Of the
squad that won the 800 pennant for Chi
cage Jimmy Callahan and Clark Griffith,
the star twirlers of the 1902 pennant> vim
ming White Sox. alone remain in the ma
jors- But only as managers Griffith never
plays but Callahan occasionally dOns a uni
form and shows the youths Of this day anu
age what their papas used to do
Three Left in 1902 Athletics.
Plank. Bender and Davis are the only
ones left Of the 1909 Athletics All the 9TH
ers have gone their separate ways and land
ed, at last. in Obscurity. Not one man re-
mains in big league company of the 1904
pennant winning Red Sox-
Where do they gO2 Sometimes from one
major league club to another. Sometimes
directly to the minors But sooner OF later
they find their way to the smaller leagues,