Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
Plays You Shouldn't Miss

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Beating Back" by Frank Gotch.
Plays You Shouldn't Miss
Cock o. the Walk" by Benjamin Kauff.
The House of Glass" by James Coffey.
Would You for Five Million?" by Jess
Willard.
Coaching Harvard, owning the Braves,
managing a sporting goods store and bat
, ting for the racquet championship must
cut into Percy Haughton's mornings. but
we often wonder how he spends his after
Moons?
Joe Tinker would rather have Doolan
average .2O7, at short than Fisher, aver
age $50. Joe probably figures that vt is
more useful to kill a base hit than it is
to produce one.
Or the Chicago Giants
Slr-I sec by an upstate paper that Jim
Gaffney is planning to buy the Boston
Dodgers! Why doesn't he purchase the
Philadelphia Yankees or the Cincinnati
Browns? G. l. NJ
Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago-th spring the Giants had
the National League championship tied
up In strips of steel.
The fall before they had beaten the
Athletics in 4 out of games for the
championship, They had the old guard
back-Mathewson McGinity, Bowerman,
8resnahan. McGann, Devlin. Donlin, Dah-
len, Gilbert and the rest.
Nothing to it. They couldn't be stoppcd.
But six months later the Cubs had
smashed all past records by winning 1lG
games and losing 80 for a grand average
well above 7Uv. No ball club since has
ever come within 8 games of this record.
Those Left
OF that old Cub guard only a few are
left in major league harness. Joe Tinker
begins his first campaign as manager of
the club which he helped to make famous
Frank Schultes spikes still cut Chicagos
sod. Miner Brown, one of the greatest
of them all, after wandering about. re-
turns to the old flag. Johnny EVers plays
with Boston. The rest have passed
Chance, Steinfeldt, Sheckard, Slagle Hof-
man, Killing, Pfeister, Overall, Reulbach
may return, If he does the Cub roster
for 1916 will still carry four names that
answered rol-call in 1906
The Shift of Fate
Ten years ago Frank Chance was lust
coming into fame and power. He was
to rule the game for half n decade He
was pointing toward the borderland of
Peerless Leader"
On that club he had a second-string
catcher named Pat Moran. Pat was con-
sidered about through. His day was
about over.
Chance went to the Yankees: Moran to
the Phillies, The p, l.. never got his club
above fifth place. Moran won a pennant
his first year out and broke the spell of
40 iiagless seasons, Or, as we have
quoted or 10 times before:
"As this OIL world goes roun' and roun',
Some go up and some go down"
THAT Mesmerizing Melody"
The campaign of 10 springs ago first
started the reiteratlon Of u phrase which
lifted Franklin PaTnassus Adams to ad-
ditional renown. Many Giant batsman
of the old days recall it-"Tinker to
Evers to Chance"
In case you have forgotten Mr.. Adams
lyric. We will try and reproduce from
memory:
"These are the Sdddest of possible
t1ords,
Tinker to EUerS to Chance:
Trio of bedTcdts and Heeter than birds,
Tinker aud EUers and Chance;
Pricktng TuthlessIU our 1ontdlon bub-
bic,
Making a Giant hit into a double,
Words that are heaUV l0ith nothing but
trouble,
Tinker 10 EUers TO Chance"
These three will start the 1915 cam
paign about as far apart as the United
States Of America could place them one
is on the Atlantic coast, another on the
Pacific coast and the third will operate
in section far from either ocean Los
! Angeles, Chicago, Boston Not even the
pegging arms they carried 10 years ago
could complete a double play at this dis
tance today.
Among those who are NOT saying:
Isn't II pity that Jack Dillon doesn't