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CHAMPION CLUBS
SOON BREAK UP
All Great Baseball Machines Of
Few Years Back Are Gone.
MATTY LAST OF 1905 GIANTS
Veteran Pitcher Only Member of Nc
Graw's Brilliant Team of Ten Years
Ago to Remain-Schulte Only One
of the Old Cubs on Deck.

Graw's Brilliant Team of Ten Years |
Ago to Remain-Schulte Only One !
of the Old Cubs on Deck.
What great changes can come in a !
few years in the makeup of pennant |
winning teams.
Chris Mathewson is the only survivor
of the 1905 Giants who 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 few years near
er ana find that the wrecking of more
modern baseball machines has been al
most as complete.
Heinie Zimmerman, Schultz and jim
my Archer are all that is left of the
1910 pennant winning Cubs. Amos
Strunk, Ira Thomas and Jack Lapp
are the only three men still on the Ath-
letics roster who helped to win the
1910 world series.
Just five men of the twenty odd
players who battcd under the Tiger
standard in the 1909 world series are
still on the Detroit payroll. These men
sliC l. WV, hodLAA N@LtlN LOluJ oSNlA
Stanage, George Moriarty and Ownie
Bush.
Some Notable Examples.
Pittsburgh beat the Tigers in that
series, and only four members of the
1909 Pirates are still in the employ of
Barney Dreyfuss. They are Fred
Clarke, Honus Wagner, Babe" Adams
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 base
ball public figured that the Red Sox
machine was one that would be kept
intact for many years to come.
But it hasn't been. Practically half
of the 1912 Red Sox have since been
sold. traded or released. Jake Stahl.
who managed the team, was fired"
the next season. 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 releas-
ed, as was Pitcher Hugh Bedient, who
now is in the Federal league. Catcher
Nunemaker was sold to the Yankees
Lone Cub of 1908 Team.
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 OIL
traded.
Only one man who battled for the
Cubs in the 1908 world series is still
under tho 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; Stcinfeldt, the brilliant
third sacker is dead; Artie Holman is
with the Cubs no more; Jimmy Scheck
ard hasn't been heard from since ht
was oustcd as manager of the Cleve
land association team. and Johnny
Killing has quit baseball.
The great Cub pitching quartet o
1908 has been scattered. pfeSter i
somewhere in the minors, Overall ha
quit baseball, Ruelbach is with tn
Newark Feds and Miner Brown wit
the Chicago outlaws"
Only two of the tllirty-fiye men VIII
figured in the 1905 Red Sox- Pirate
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baseball Both played with the T.
rates. One is Wagner; the other
Tommy Leach.
A. Only six of the more than forty ell
gible for duty in the 1903 Giants-Ati
lctics world series are still in bi
league baseball Mathewson is wit
the Giants, Roger Brcsnahan is maI
aging the Cubs and doing the bulk c
the catching, and Leon Ames is pitcl
ing for the Cincinnati Reds. Thos
three men wore Giant uniforms i
1905
Feds Claim Athletic Stars.
Danny Murphy anu Eddie Plank NJ
the only members Of the 1865 Athletic
who arc now III the bic leagues Bot
are with the Feds. Bender was let OF
recently.
Ed Walsh and MEX Altrock are tt
ouly members of the world champio
1896 White SoX team who are still
the majors. "Jigss' Donohue Fran
Isbell. Whitley Rake. Shortstopa d.
Wis and Tannchill, OUtiicldors Jone
Hahn and DoughCrty. Catcher Sulliva
and Pitchers Owen and WhitC--all
them have passed beyond major lcagl
view as players. Homes has come bac
but us Il manager of the 81 Lou
Feds not as 4 PLAYER.
Rossman. first base; Schaafcr. Sc"ol
base; OLeary. shoItstop; CoughIi
third base-that wAG the pennant wi
ming inficld Of the 1908 Tigers 4
liam. Summers. Donovan. Mullen III
Winters participated in the 1908 wor
series battles. Schacfcr. with Ncwal
Feds. plays now and then. while Don
van, the Yankees pilot. essays to pit,
occasionally