Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-16

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ly love in clubhouse and along the
base paths may result from the cur
rent crisis over Hack Wilson'S one
punch victory over Pete DOnohue-
but we doubt it.
Ball players have always been
pugilists at heart ard we don't be-
lieVe any ukase which Nationa!
League President John A. Heydler
OF anybody else might utter can
effectively abolish the colorful lit
tie braWlS which have frightened
baseball since the first time one
player laid one on another'S ear.
Hack Wilson, a promising heavy
weight who has been Disgusting
himself a5 a member Of the Chica-
go Cubs, had no idea what he was
starting when he let fly a rocky
fist which zoomed up to connect
with the chin Of Pete the pitcher.
Hack thought he was only deliver
ing q fresh load OF knuckle5 by air
mail. Instead he created a big
league crisis.
The crisis developed when Cluo
President @. A. McDiarmid Of the
Reds failed to pass over the Incl
dent (DonohCe is an old employe
Of hiss with the usual "Ha! Ha!
Well, ball players will be ball play
ers," and, instead, let out a yell of
protest which caused Heydler to
sit as a supreme court in judgment
over the case.
He's An Anti-Red
Just before the Donohue affair
Hack went after Ray Kolp, also Of
the Reds, and there may be some
thing in baseball's ring rules which
forbidS hitting two men of any
one team in succession. Maybe that
explains the Heydler probe.
Hack is a swell ball player and
his lOsG by suspension would be no
trifle to any big league club, es-
pecially the Chicago Cubs, now in
the thick of a pennant fight. Hence
the crisis.
Wilson is a player Of the old
school. He is a throW-back to the
times when warfare ragged in the
clubhouse and under the grand
stand, and often during a game.
Back in those roaring times. a
player was almost as proud of his
uppercut as he was Of his batting
average. And no league president
ever interfered, save perhaps when
a stray fist collided with an UNI
pire.
Ty the Terror
One Of the greatest battlers Of
all time was Ty Cobb. He would
rush to the colors on any excuse
and he always came out of his cor
ner swinging. Size meant nothing
TO Cobb. He tackled Big Schmidt, q
mammoth catcher, and he ono
dueled with the small Buck Herzog
When Ty got mad it took him !
whole season to cool off. He fought
umpireS, infielders, pitchers and
even noisy spectators. Sometime
ne battled with his own teammates
Ty usually didn't fare SO well but
1t made no difference-he was al
ways ready for more. He sailed in.
to Babe Ruth on one occasion. This
one ended in no decision.
Ty was a fiery southerner and
the Detroit Tigers was lust thC
team for him. The Tigers fought
among themselves almost everI
Gay. Savage civil war only whetteG
their appetites for combat, it seems
for the Detroits won quite a few
remnants during their most riotous
times.
Them Were The Days
The late Frank Chance was an.
other great war horse. And ASK
any old-timer about Kid Elberfeld
KID Gleason, John McGraw-anc
what they COULD do when theil
dander was up. McGraw, though
getting along in years, still refuses
TO take too much back talk.
Some Of the outstanding battles
CT baseball were Frank SNYDER.
Smacking Jack OnsloW Of the Pr
ates; the Adolfo Luque-Casey Stem
gel massacre and the time Heinie
zimmerman fought about six other
fellows.
Those old-timers were so quick
on the trigger that before the first
syllable Of a mild cuss word coulc
MT their ears they had the grand
stand wrapped around the cusser's
Uranium.
Ihere have been stories that Dor
bottles were often used as clubs by
irate players, and that once 81
twice bats were put to effective use
However, this is only hearsay, anc
as no actual murder was ever re.
ported, il seems the warriors Of thf
major loops stuck chiefly IN thei,