South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
GREAT CHANGES
IN MAKEUP Of
CHAMP ION CLUBS
Players Who Have Composed
Pennant Winning Teams of
Last Few Years Drop From
Sight Rapidly.
BY Frank G.. Menke.

Di r. NAtIkt-
NEW YORK, July 1O.-What great
changes can come in a few years in
the makeup of pennant winning ball
teams?
Chris Mathewson is the only sur
vivor of the 1905 Giant machine that
battled with the Athletics in the world
series of that year "Wildfire" Frank
Schultz is the Last Mohican" of the
1907 Cub machine.
But one can move a few years near
er and find that the wrecking OF more
modern baseball machines has been
almost as complete.
Heinie Zimmerman, Schultz and
Jimmy Archer are all that is left of
the 1910 pennant winning Cubs. Jack
Barry and Amos Strunk, Ira Thomas
and Jack Iapp are the only four men
still on the Athletics roster who help
ed TO win the 1910 world series for the
Athletics.
Just five men of the 20 odd players
who battled under the Tiger standard
in the 1909 world series are still on the
Detroit payroll Those men are Ty
Cobb. Sam Crawford, oscar Stanage,
George Moriarity and Ownie Bush.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the
Tigers in that series, and only three
members of the 1903 Pirates are still
in the employ OF Barney Dreyfuss.
They are: Honus Wagner, Babe" Ad-
ans and Catcher Gibson.
Great changes have come in the
makeup of the Red SoX team in the
past three years. When the Red SOX
defeated the Giants in that memorable
eight-game 1912 world series, the
baseball public figured that the Red
SOX machine was one that would be
kept intact for many years 10 come.
Team Is Juggled.
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of the 1912 Red Sox have since been
sold, traded or released Jake Stahl
who managed the team, was fired
the next season. Heir YerkeS, who
covered himself with glory around
second base, is now with the Feds.
Neal Ball and Clyde Engle, utility men,
were let out. Pitchers Hall and
O'Brien were released, as was Pitcher
Hugh Bedient, who now is with the
Federal league Catcher Nunamaker
was sold to the Yankees.
Nine of the Giants who played in
that 1912 series have passed along.
Some are in the minors; some are
with the Feds and others have been
sold or traded.
Only one man who battled for the
Cubs in the 1908 world series is still
battling under the Cub standard-and
that man is Schultz, the last cog of the
1907 machine. Chance is gone: EVers
is with the Braves; Tinker is with the
Chicago Feds. Steinfeldt, the bril-
liant third sacker, is dead. Artie Hof-
man is with the Cubs no more; jim
my Sheckard hasn't been heard from
since he was ousted as manager OF
the Cleveland association team. John
ny King has quite baseball
The great Cub quartet of 1903 has
been scattered. Pfeister is some
where in the minors; Overall has quit
baseball; Ruelbach is with the New
ark Feds and Miner Brown is with
the Chicago Feds.
Only two Of the 70 men who figured
in the 1905 Red Sox-Pirates world
series are still in major league base
ball Both played with the Pirates.
One is Wagner; the other is Tommy
Leach.
Few Champs Left.
Only six Of the more than 40 men
who were eligible for duty in the 1905
Giants athletics world series are still
in big league baseball. MathewsOn
is still with the Giants; Roger Bres-
nahan is managing the Cubs and do
ing the bulk Of the catching; Leon
Ames is pitching for the Cincinnati
Reds Those three men wore Giant
uniforms in 1905.
Danny Murphy. Eddie Plank and
Chief Bender are the only members
of the 1905 Athletics who are now in
the big leagues, and all three are with
the Feds.
Ed Walsh is the only member of
the world champion 1906 White SOx
team who is still in the big leagues.
"Jiggs'' Donahue, Frank lsbell,
Whitley" Rake. ShOrtstops Davis and
Tannehill, Outfielders Jones. Hahn
and Dougherty, Catcher sullivan and
Pitchers Owen. Owne. White and Alt
rock-1u Of them have passed beyond
major league view as players. Jones
has come back-but as a mana ger Of
the ST Louis Feds-not as player
Claude Rossman. III: Germany
Schaefer. 2nd; O'Leary, Il; COughlin.
9b. That was the pennant winning
infeld Of the 1908 Tigers. Killian,
Summers. Donovan. Mullin and Win
tiers participated in the 1908 world
series battles. And not one Of the in
field and not one of the pitchers re-
main in the big leagues as players.