The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-04
BY HUGH FULLERTON.

has become on OF the biggest and most
interesting developments In sport. Chi
cago, Cleveland and other cHitieS nave
taken I'd the old-timer Idea. 1 be-
lieve We originated 1t In Chicago. and
then let It drop. But Boston has made
It big event. n rally!ng time and
reunion Of the old fellows who mad"
tho sport what Il was and kept 1t clean
and sportsmsnlike as long as they were
In control.
Sat the other night at table with Cy
Young, close to sixty and Still READY
TO pitch: with Kid Nichols. who showed
pictures Of his grandchildren and can
hon his fast one over even now. and
who Is so or under golfer; with Jimmy
Archer. looking younger than he did
ne Quilt tho game; with Jimmy Collins.
greatest perhaps Of all third hasemen.
and now In charge OF all municipal
baseball In Buffalo; with Al SelOach'
retired and prosperous. wearing glasses
but still able to hit and field: BIZ Brad
ley, portly and fine looking; Whitney,
who played in the National before l WAS
born-as fine Il bunch Of men as ever
assembled. and every ono of them with
the old game as much at heart now as
when they played it.
Umpires 'Error5" Infrequent
In four hours not Il word was spoken
save baseball, Of old-tinc plays and
players II was great TO listen, ana
there were some things that made
dent. II was funny to hear Selba'h,
who used to give the jumps an argument
occasionally. declare that he never knew
an imp to give wrong decision hait
as often rs a player made All error.
The thing that hit hardest was this:
These men declared that ball players
today are better prepared. better IN
struCted, and that the reason they play
porer baseball ia that they are IN II
for the love Of money and not Tor love
OF the game.
| wonder how many OF the present
day ball players viii care to attend
reunion with their old mates and foes
twenty years hence" VIII they love
the sport aud tho men who played 1t
with them enough to drop business and
rush back 10 reunion?
old-Timers Can Play Still
And how many Of them. with all their
care Of arms and their refusal TO play
unless In perfect condition. with their
insistence upon laying or every tmo
they skin a knuckle. will be ply stca!iy
able to play the game?
Kid Nichols, by the way, Is sponsor
Ing a big idea which ought 10 make n
hit. The kid is corting golfer and
| plays In Kansas City at every opporiun-
| lty. He wants 10 arrange golf touraa-
: ,:ent for baseball players. past and
! present. to be held each fall after the
! close OF the season.
The Idea has possibilities and would
! give a lot Of interest. Tho manner IN
| which ball players are going in Tor goh
shows the grip the Scotch game has
| upon tho athletes. AT the recent ANA
teur tournament at Rrookline the gal
| leries were flied with major league ball
players who got up early. rode out 10
the course. followed play hole by hoie
and hurried back AT the last minute 10
play their own gnme. Practically all
the members OF the Braves. Athletics
tand Red So1 were out during the tourn-
ament TO see the amateurs shoot GOLF
and the majority OF them are playing
golf at every opportunity. In fact, many
OF the ball players carry their golf clubs
with them wherever they so and seldom
lose chance to play.
statz IL Golf Star
STATE. Of the Chicago Cubs, Is OF
course the star golfer OF baseball, be-
cause he was nearCha NIPPON when In
college. but there are a number. .nclud-
Ing Hank Gowdy and Oeschger. of the
Braves. Dick Rudolph, iris Speaker,
and others who can give him an argu-
ment The old prejudice against golt
among ball players seems to have
passed away. The manager who can
get his entire squads out for q round
OF golf In the mornings Will have team
In better condition TO play ball in tha
afternoon than they now are-or per-
haps ever have been
The football situation in commencing
10 loom up as the squads return for the
fall work. Princeton seems 10 have
!, picked up n little start on the others
OF the big three. because Coach Roper
had lot OF his back field men out for
! preliminary work in Maine before either
Harvard or Yale got start. The fact
Is that the three agreed taciuy at least
last year not to start training early. and
Yale and Harvard got In slightly ahead