The sun., 1917-05-27
TIME LAUGHS AS HE
TURNS SPORT PAGES
Baseball JOttings Of Olden
Days Throw Interesting
Light on Many Figures.
O'DAY AN UMPIRE BATTER.

Going back about twenty-five years We
recently dug up some baseball gems Of
the past that In the light OF history take
on unusual interest Items which then
were jotted down as idle gossip, 10 he
forgotten he rext day. make more III
teresting reading to-day than accounts
of modern pitching duels. OF slugg ns
matches.
We fnd that at one time Billy sun
day, the big league evangelist, confded
TO some buddies that when he go'
through iayihs baseball he would stsr;
q pool and billiard parlor.
We also find old Hankus Pankus
,ODay grumbiing at the umpires. who
never gave him a square deal and Hank
always pulled rough stun OF them. A
little Quip says what Hank thinks Of the
''umps'' Is not fit to print. II perhaps
cheers I'D Hanks old days to know that
during the last dozen years many wor-
thy athletes have felt the same way to-
ward him.
And then -,e find the paragrapher
taking q whacx at John Klnley Tener
. for giving up ar easy Job which netted
him anywhere from 1880 to $4,000.
But ]. kiney just kept plugging along,
became a bank president. director in nu-
mefous corporations. member OF Con
gress, Governor OF pennsylvania and
finally president OF the National League.
1an Johnson's Huge Joke.
We also And that ban johnson re.
joicod when the Brotherhood collapsed
and wrote In his baseball column In the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette that the
! smashup OF the Brotherhood meant that
never again would there be an attempt
to establish q second major league.
Then old Charley Comiskey is accused
of being a sucker at least for any
pitcher who feI him a high curve on the
inside. but Just the same Charley owns
one OF the finest baseball parks in the
United States and next to the Giants has
the biggest following
The worst .tn1ck is aimed a poor old
Connie Mack. Connie, the only manager
in the game who ever won six league
pennants and three worlds pennsnts Is
always spoken of as having been wise
old bird behind ;he plate in his younger
days. But this scribe " the sos
didn't think So While concedinS Connis
could throw the hall around a bit. he &C
cused him OF lacking generalship. bu'
still thought there was a little hope TO
him. He expresses AN opinion that Man
aSer Buckenberger OF Pittsburg Nigh
learn Connie 10 think a bit IL he worked
him hard enough That sure is pokins
q 6ow at the astute Cornelius, now
known as the shrewdest man In basebat,
Keeler Too Light for Majors.
Then we hear Of such kids as Mugs.
Mc0raw and Willie Keeler breaking In
Mc0raw is admitted TO be a good pros
pect, but poor Keeler is passed over a:
being too light for fast company. Aftel
pitching two years. Cy Ioung's failure
already was predicted. He was curvin;
them too much and only two more sea
sons were given az his limit. Yet G.
lived to pitch until he was 43 and twirle,
his third no hit game In 1909.
! Lave Cross who played on the Brook
lyn champions OF 1899 and 1900 ant
captained Mack's Athletic champions o
1903 and 1905. during which years III
ranked with the greatest third basemer
In baseball, was being shipped TO th'
minors In the middle 's0s.