The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-26
BASEBALL HEROES
 OF YESTERDAY ARE
 FADING FROM VIEW
Passing of Sherry Magee Brings to Mind the Bril- liant Stars of Other
 Years
BY BoB McDAvID
Ry JAMEs J. conBETr

The passing of Sherry Magee from major league view brings again the saddening recollec- tion that the heores of the seeming yesterday are no more; that Time has taken his toll and extracted from major fields in just a brief span of years the idols that were wor- shiped so devoutly.
 Going back seven years--bacl to the never-to-be-f forgotten blue ribbon duel be- tween the Red Sox and Giants--isnt gong back very far. The details of that series are still so firmly fixed in the minds of the average baseball fans that it seems but like yesterday Yet vast changes have come in basebalFs complexion since tEen.
 Hans Wagner, Napoleon Lajoie. Christy Mathewson. Bordecai Brown, Ed Plank, Johnny King Charles c'ChiefD Bender, Jack Coombs, Jimmy Archer, Ed Walsh, Doe White-those were names that spelled baseball greatness then. Where have they gone? Where have the shifting sands of time waited them?
 PLAYERS HAVE GONE
 Wagner, Lajoie, Brown, Plank, Walsh,
 
 drifted beyond the baseball realms, gone bacS,n the obscurity of private life that was their portion before their baseball brilliance lifted them into national and undying fame. Matty is coaching for the Giants and Bender is in the far-down minors.
 Johnny Evers was a star of stars in 1912, ranked as one of the greatest play CTS in the game Evers is through, his connection with big league baseDa:f put a memory. Joe Tinker has passed into the minor league magnate folds, and so has Roger Bresnahan. Sam Crawford passed out a few years ago. And so did Danny Murphy, one of the greatest of the athletes.
 Joe Benz, Jack warhop, George Mulln, Bobby Groome, George Wiltse, Barney Pelty. Cy Morgan Ed Ruelbach, George Suggs, Jimmy Lavendar, Tom Seaton, Otto Hess, Cy Barger-these were hurling names to be reckoned with seven years ago. But it's long, long time since any has been mentioned in connection with present-day baseball
 Joe Wood was the pitching sensation of 1912, and Hugh Bedent was Tne world series hero. Bedient is almost forgot ten; Woods arm went wrong and he now is an Indian outheder. And Buck O'Bren and Roy Collins, so vital in the great battle for worlds honors of 1912
  ory.
 STALL WAS HERO
 Jake Stahl was a hero of heroes in 1912, the man who led the Bostonians to championship heights But Stahl is for gotten. And so are Hans l4obert, then one of the most brilliant third basemen in the land; Arthur Devlin, John Hum mell the great Dodger second basemaN; Nap Fucker, one of the greatest left ,aiF ave Tommy Leach, a marvel at third, and oe equal brilliance in the outields of 1912
 Chief Meyers of the Giants, Billy Sulli- van of the Whites. who knew but few peers in backstopping; Jack Iapp, Ira Thomas ''Gabby" Street. Ed Sweeney of the Yankees, Ted EasterN, Bill Carrlgan of the Red Sox. Charlie Dooin, Tom Clarke of the Redss Larry Mclean, Tom Needham--all were great in 1912; all were men so brilliant in their backstoppinS that it was figured they would remain ever fresh in memory. But not once year do their names appear in sport pages.
 Mike Donin. Artie Holman, Himmy Sheckford Frank Schulte, Joe Birming- ham. Davey Jones, Steve Yerkes, Bud dv" Ryan, Otto Knabe, Arthur Brdwell, Bin Sweeney, George Storall Rube Old- ring-starry stars in 1912 and for few years afterward But the day came when their eyes dmmed, their legs lost the speed of youth, their arms became shorn of all the old snap and power-and they passed along
 And now-as players-they come 10 mlna only occasionally They belong to the .past-a glorious past, yes. and one which they helped to make glorious Yet u $ inc way of the world to forget QUICKLY those who but yesterday seemed unfor- gettable.