The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-16


 Now you can ask yourself where | trey have gone.
 Do you remember the lineup of that worlds championship machine |? Look it over again: Slagle. center field. Sheckard. left field Tinker. shortstop. | Chance. first base. Steinfeldt. third base l SChulte. right field
 Evers. second base. kling. catcher. Brown. pitcher.
 Reulbach, pitcher Hoffman, utility Slagle. who led off that famous batting list, was rapidly lost to base balldom He is out of it forever. Sheckard has dropped to the Amer ican association.
 Joe Tinker virtually started the Federal league and heads the Chicago Fed club.
 Frank Chances bright star is waning rapidly. There is talk of someone replacing him as the Yan- kees' manager.
 Steinfeldt, who dropped from the top of the heap to the bottom so suddenly, no longer is playing base ball.
 Evers is doing his best for the Boston Braves, a peppery man as of old
 kling, the marvel, no longer adorns tre diamond He runs a billiard hall in Kansas City.
 Old Ed Reulbach is with the Brooklyn nationals, but is not at his best by any means.
 Mordecai Brown, the "three-finger- ed'' twirler, is with the St. Louis Feds and, after failing as manager. has been replaced by Fielder Jones.
 Artie Hoffman is frolicking about second base with the Brooklyn Feds under Bill Bradley.
 Of that ilustrious, fear-inspiring machine Schulte alone is left. Frank still is playing good ball, but it was not so very long ago that he was taken out to allow another to bat for him silent message that the end is drawing near for one of the bright est stars of the baseball Armament, the man who has made more home runs in the big league than any oth-
  most valuable player in the National league and at one time considered the best in the world.
 When the last of Schulte is seen (we trust it is far away) we will not only witness the passing of a ballplayer among ballplayers, but the last of the electrifying Cub ma chine of 1906.
 Racers Come in Pairs.
 It seems to be sort of precedent in lightharness history that sensa- tional performers come in pairs, writes J. L. Hervey. Looking back over the vista that presents itself remarkable series of duos is dis covera ble. The two first 2:10 trot ters. Maud s. and Jay -EyeSee, flash ed almost simultaneously, the latter trotting in 2:10 flat on one day and the mare in 2:O9A the next
 Everybody remembers the rivalry between the two phenomenal Swear olds, Axtell and Sunol-and later on, when Sunol at maturity was winning to the worlds champion ship. Nancy Hanks sprung up to con tend with and finally wrest the honors from her.
 A few years later We saw Cresceus and The Abbot warning strenuously for the trotting throne. Then came the never-to-be-forgotten pair. Lou were followed fast by Highball and Sonoma Girl, they in turn giving way to Uhlan and Hamburg Belle.
 Just at present history is repeat ing itself in the case of the two phenomenal pacers. William and Directum I. For generations har- ness horsemen had been awaiting the advent of the horse that would cover the mile in "even time" in a regular public race, to which entries had been opened to all corners and the competitors represented differ ; ent stables. But until this season no such horse had appeared. Sev- eral had given evidence of their ability to perform the feat, but all had halted this side the boundary line.
 True one Minor Heir did repeat edly beat 200 in competition, pacing one mile as low as 1:59. but he did so in exhibition dash races in which his opponents were other horses owned or controlled by his owner In heat race against a field of true competitors his best effort was 2:OO1h.
 So this season opened with the two-minute race horse still an un- realized ideal. But the realization came soon, for at the third Grand Circuit meeting. held at Grand Rap ids, Mich, the first week in August, the 4-year-old colt William paced the first heat of race in 2:O01a and followed it up by second one in flat 200
 The performance set the turf world agog, for not only was it an epochal one-it was accomplished with such ease that it was appar- ent the cold had lot in reserve. He paced the third heat in 2:02h, pulled up, and his trainer and driver, w. w. Marvin of Lafayette Ind, who is anything but boastful. re- marked after it that he could have driven him that one, too in 200 or better, had it been necessary.
 From the moment of his achieve ment William was heralded as with out rival among the pacers of the season. But he was destined to re- main in this proud position momen- tarily only With the lapse of but four weeks another two-minute pacer also raced into the limelight and Is now threatening to shoulder him out of it-Directum I.