New Britain herald., 1916-02-05

Coaching Harvard, owning the braves' managing a sporting goods store and battling 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 Doo- Ian, average .2O7, at short than Fisher, average .2SO. Joe probably hgures that it is more useful to kill , base hit than f, is to produce one. Or the Chicago Giants. Sir see by an upstate paper that Jim Gaffney is planning to buy the Boston Dodgers Why doesn't he purchase the Philadelphia Yankees : of the Cincinnati Browns? c. L. M Ten Years Ago. Ten years ago this spring the Giants had the National League championship tied up in strips of steel
 The fall before they had beaten the Athletics in f out of 5 games for the championship. They had the old guard back-Mathe McGinnity, bowerman Bresnahan, McGann, Dev-
 
 Nothing to it. They couldn't be stopped. But six months later the Cubs had smashed all past records hy winning lie games and losing 36 for a grand average of 700. No ball club since has ever come within D games of this record.
 Those Left.
 Of that old Cub guard ouly 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 Schul1c's spikes still cut Chicago sod. Miner Brown, one of the greatest of them all, after wandering about returns 10 the old flag. Johnny Evers plays with Boston, The first have passed Chance, Steinfeldt, Sheckard, Slagle, Holman, Kling, Pfeister, Overall Reulbach may return. If he does the Cub roster for 1915 will still carry four names that answered rollcal in 1906.
 The Shift of Fate.
 Ten years ago Frank Chance was just coming into fame and power. He was to rule the game for half a de- cade. He was pointing toward the bcrderland of Peerless Leader"
 On the club he had a second string catcher named Pat Moran. Pat was considered about through. His day vas 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 cut and broke the spell of 40 flag n,, 2 or 10 times before:
 AS the op world goes roun' and
 rOun',
 Some go up and some go down.
 That Mesmerizing Melody"
 The campaign of ten springs ago first started the reiteration of l nrase which lifted Franklin Par nassus Adams to additional renoWn. Many a Giant batsman of the old days recall it-"Tinker to Evers to Chance.''
 In case you have forgotten MT. Adams lyric, we will try and repro duce from memory:
 These are the saddeSt of possible
 words,
 Tinker to Evers to Chance; Trio of bearcats and fieeter than Tinker and Evers and Chance; Picking ruthlessly our gonfalon bub-
 ble,
 Words that are heavy With nothing
 but trouble,
 Tinker to Evers to Chance.
 These three will start the 1916 campaign about as far apart as the l.. S. of A. could place them. One is on the Atlantic coast, another on the Pacific coast and the third will operate in a section far from either ocean. Los Angeles, Chicago, Bos- ton Not even the begging arms the carried ten years ago could com plete a double play at this distance today.
 Among those who are not saying: Isn't it a pity that Jack Dillon doesn't weigh 25 pounds more are Jess Willard and Frank Moran.
 A Road Record.
 Looking back over a stretch of ten years to that Cub machine of 1906, We seem to have stumbled over an other record.
 The season the Cubs played "A road games, of which they won so and lost 14, for a road percentage of .811. Certainly in modern base ball-from 1890 on, this mark has never been touched. The Cubs did better on the road that season than at home. The old home club that r. .ade any showing against Chances 4 ia dn1n