The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-21

Otd-ttune champion teams, real winners that ran their strings to three, give rise to more arguments among the various generations of baseball fans than any other singIe thing in the game No bearded vet eran of the eighties, who saw Anso1 win, will admit that there IS any truth or righteousness in the upsrarr who speaks of Chances Cubs. And no Giant fan of today, or ten years ago, will concede Ned HanIon a thing in comparison to his pupil, McGraw.
 They never have found the gre Itest champion. It's team that will never be picked, but a grand, old-timer From the first pink of dawn of base bah to his Anal gasping breath last April. Cap Anson knew only single eeam-his mighty White Stockings, wAo ruled the National League through the eighties.
 The veteran Chicago manager af- ways was most unyielding in hIs stand about the White Stockings, and all the three time winners, Anscn holds the record of having turned in his triple effort with fewer changes dn his roster than any other man.
 Wins Five Flags.
 The White Stockings succeeded the old Providence Grays as champions in 1880. They were not deposed un- til John MorroM returned the Bos- on O. Frank Bancroft edged Providence into another flag in 1884 with the great Radbourne as a pitching ace but Anson regained the top In lHSo, with practically the same team. one side of the box, that had won his first three titles.
 Cap repeated in 1888. He used to say that he never would have lost 1T he had not been forced, for the good of the game to sell his star battery, C1arkson and Kelly, to Boston. Anson got $1O,O0O for those players Tn the sdirst big money deal in baseball Cap never again was able to hit the win ming trail.
 < In winning five pennants over q sseven-year stretch, Anson had a total of only IT men on his list as regu- lars. With one change, his infeld played through the sevcn-year period Pfeffer replaced Quest at second base.
 "Cap" on First Base
 Cap himself played first base through the entire stretch. and for many years afterwards, while Burns and Ed Williamson switched back and forth at third and short. It was Williamson who gave Babe Ruth ana Rogers Hornsby mark to shoot at' 27 home runs In 1884.
 % The oIrtfield of the champion White Stockings was practically a constant uuality-Dalrynple, Gore and Kelly with Nichol, Ryan and Billy Sunday getting in from time to time as suo- stitutes.
 Flint caught for the team through most of the reign. but Kelly moNea an from right field toward the iast and became a great receiver. cor coran and Goldsmith pitched TOT the threeLdme champions. while Clark son and Mccormick did mound duty
 Rise of Browns.
 While Anson ard his stalwarts were doing their stuff in Chicago. Charles A. Comiskey, was getung 1ar,- 1vsX- in tn the other 1eague-ComiSkey won four straight pennants, record which no one else has ever equaled in the major leagues. and which T O one else, save NIcGraw, is in posi- tion to equal
 Con1iskey himself played first base .and had with him in the m fnson and Gleaso on-not, however, wilber-t and the Kid Uncle Robbie then was a young catcher with the fhe Kid was starting as pitcher
 In the oUtfield were, Tip o'Nein: Welsh and Hugh Nichol. the last Chicago. Dave FoItz was one of the Brown pitchers, and also took a turn h the outfield. Carruthers, hudson, King and Chamberlain were among s8,e other flIrlens. BushonS dld most of the catching.
 SeIee Had Fine Team
 If Frank Salee had Ived ,S IonS more talkative. Anson might have had an argument in these later years, for each of these men developed a cline of the White StoclIings. Each l won five pennants. and Han!on du- pEcated Anson's feat of winning 1lre | in seven years. three in Baltimore and two in Brooklyn.
 Selee gave the game it's greatest lnfieid in Tenny, Lowe. Long and | Collins while Hanlon produced what | many fans call the one greatest team, are q power in the game as man i agerS and scouts Kelly from Anson. having lost them .o the Players League in 1S9O, ana having recovered theIn the following year, Selee started his team on 9anIon got the Orioles off on thelr .hree-year spin il 1884 ,yo1,,-
 The great Baltimore teara-k ely srodie. KeeIer, BrGnthers, q dhiHSo, hgt,f' 4Tof fer, Corbett. Nopps among then~ won handsomely in 1894 and in 1SS6, ,ut had 6 rather tight squeeze wlth With his champion infieId complet- d by the acquisition of Penney, SeIee returned to the tor for two yearS In 1897 and 1898. Then followed Han on. with his team moved almost in act to Brooklyn for two more pen lantS-
 Pittsburgh Takes Hand.
 The reduction Of the National League from twelve clubs to eight rave Barney DreyfuS a chance to pick ehe best men from Louisville and urn them. over to Clarke in Pitts ,urgh. Clarke responded turning the Pirates in as three time champions n 1901-02-0S.
 Among the immortalS developed were Hans Wagner, sam Leever and Deacon PhiIlpe. Of these Philhpe md Wagner lived in a baseball way. O take part in winning another pen aant for Clarke six years later.
 During the reign of Clarke and the Pirates, Frank Selee. removed to Chi ago, was quietly Building. When le was just about ready for a pen lant drive, i'll health forced him out ,f the game and q young first base nan named Frank L. Chance stepped | O the drivers seat
 Present day fans are well acquaint-