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against Seaton.
and made seven runs.
St. Louls last season. [ was working
We could have made
Yet there
ONLY A FEW VETERANS LEFT
Twenty-four of the 330 Players Who
Figured in War of 1902 Still Re-
main in the Big Arena.
Although only 24 of the 230 ball
and National league races of 1902,
the last year of the American league
baseball war, still remain in
arena, a team composed of these vet
the big
game upward of 14 seasons, would be
capable of holding its own, with any
that might be selected
All of these players are
today
far above
counts for their
game so long, are
great batsmen, and
exceptions, grand base runners
all-star team would up as
lows:
Matthewson, Plang and Hess, piteh-
ers; Bresnahan and Dooin, catchers:
Lajoie, first base; Evers, second
base; Wagner, shortstop: Wallace,
third base: Callahan, left field;
Leach, center field; Crawford, right
field.
The manager for this team could be
selected from among John McGraw,
Fielder Jones, Clark Griffith, Hugh
Jennings, Wilbert Robinson and Fred
Clarke, as all of former stars
were in the game in 1902, Griffith and
McGraw being pilots, as now.
in the
fielders,
two
This
fol
remaining
excellent
with
one or
line
these
of Loss to Athletics and Brac-
ing of Other Clubs,
Ban Johnson
race in the
President
great
looks for a
American league
next season. Says Ban: “The addi
tion of Eddie Collins (0 the White
Sox, the loss of Mack's veteran pliteh-
ers and the retiring of Baker, if he
really quits; the strengthening of the
Red Sox and the general bracing of
the clubs will make the race a hum-
mer. The Athletics have been virtual
iy shot to pieces. This will make every
club in the league hustle, for a good
bit of the fear which the old-timers
President Ban Johnson.
caused in the younger players will be
missing. Then the western clubs will
be stronger this year. The race shoulg
keep the fans on their toes all of the
time.”
Worries of Boston Braves.
“The, Cardinals and Cubs will be our
worries in chief; we do not regard
them lightly.” This is the summing
up of the 19156 National league propo-
sition as expressed by “Rabbit” Maran.
ville of the champion Boston Braves.
a aM
Speed McDonald's Hard Luck.
Speed McDonald, utility Los Angeles
infielder, broke an ankle sliding to a
base In a workout just a week before
the Coast league season opened,
LIFE-LONG JOB FOR WAGNER
“Flying Dutchman” Can Play With
Pittsburgh Pirates as Long as He
Likes—His Career.
Honus Wagner can play with the
Pittsburgh team as long as he likes.
Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pi.
rates, recently made this announce:
ment. Barney says that when the big
slow for a regular po
used for pinch hitting
no longer able to de-
he will be used as a
players. Wagner is
sition he will be
and when he is
liver pinch hits
coach for young
all in as a ball plaver. He should be
good for two or three seasons more at
the least, a well-preserved ath.
He is
Honus Wagner.
lete and always takes good care of
himself
Wagner, fami‘iarly known as the
“Flying Dutchman,” was born in
Carnegie, Pa, February 24, 1874. He
played professional ball for the first
time in 1805 with the Steubenville (0.)
team, and later In the same season
Joined the Warren team of the Iron
and Oil league, The following year he
Joined the Paterson (N. J.) team.
where he played two seasons. In 1897
he broke into the big show as a mem
ber of the Louisville National league
team.
During the three years he was with
Louisville he was shifted from first
base to third base, and finally to the
In 1900 the Louisville team
was transferred to Pittsburgh. Honus
has been a member of the Pirates ever
since,
PLAYERS ARE POOR BARBERS
Stuffy Mcinnis Will Never Again Al
low Harry Davis and Larry La-
joie to Shave Him.
Larry Lajole is making good at see
ond base for the Athletics, but he isn't
qualifying as a barber at all, Stuffy
Mcinnis will vouch for that,
On a recent barnstorming trip of the
Athletics Stuffy needed a shave badly.
The hotel barber shop was full. La.
Jolie and Harry Davis volunteeed as
barbers,
Lajole stuffed a towel under Stuf
fy's zhin. Davis applied the lather.
Then Hurry shaved Melnnis. The
shave didn’t meet with the approval
of Larry. He insisted upon going over
Stuffy s face again,
He used an upstroke whére Davis
had used downward strokes. Davis
wasn't satisfied until he had turned
the trick once more. Mclnnis was
game and, in spite of the way his face
smarted and burned, he stuck it out
to the finish.
Two days later, however, McInnis
wouldn't accept another shave from
the Davis-Lajole combination,
“Never again.” said Stuffy,
to keep my face”
“I want
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Shortstop Maranville Regarded
as Wonder of Baseball,
He la About the Size of a Boy, With
Speed of a Jackrabbit, and a
Mighty Strong Arm-—Has Odd
Way of Catching a Fly,
Rabbit Maranville, shortstop of the
Boston Braves, is the lightning spark
| of this amazing team. He is a wonder
| of baseball, being the size of a boy
with the speed of a jackrabbit and
the arm of Moriarty.
Evers, the great trio of pitchers—and
Maranville
Chief among the attractions is the
manner in which he catches a fly. He
dashes after it and then stands look-
ing up at it as it descends. His arms
lle loosely at his sides. He doesn't
set himself a particle. It nears him,
faster and faster,
Just as it comes on a level with
his head he puts his hands together
“Rabbit” Maranville
at his waist and nonchalantly catches
it. He is only star in captivity
who catches a ball in this remarkabie
manner
Fans gasp
stunt. They
ae
when
are
he performs the
always looking for
er does
Maranville gets a grounder
other shortstops
ball In & most unconcerned fashion
and can whip it across at fearful
speed One has to wonder where he
gets the strength, There is no jerk
to his movement, no effort whatever.
Then, when is at the bat He
has a short, heavy stick he
holds in the middle so that about a
foot and a hall is left to crack the
ball And it's no infrequent thing
to see him whale a double
triple
The lad
works like a
around second
Nobody wanted this little feliow bee
cause he “wasn’t big enough for fast
company,’ George Stallings signed
Maranville and sald to him then:
‘You're just the man I want My
idea of a shortstop is a small man.
He can get over the ground faster
than a big man. Don’t worry about
your size, Maranville. Just cover the
ground and I'll keep you with this
big show.”
And Maranville
the worry of
make good?
Johnny Evers and Stallings claim
that he is the greatest shortstop that
ever played the game! Of course,
that’s a Boston claim but, truth to
tell, Maranville played the position
unlike
he
his
and
Evers
has all sorts of
whirlwind
pep
with
was relieved of
thrilling rush to the front All of
which goes to show that a man who
Is fast, game, and a hitter can get
than a top hat,
DASIBALL NOTIN
said to be carrying on negotiations for
the exchange of a few players,
* - ¥
Securing a second baseman to re-
place McLarry is worrying the man-
agement of the Louisville club,
» - *
President Thomas of the Cubs de
clares this will be a banner year in
baseball, Carrying the banner?
ad * »
Manager Rebel Oakes of the Pitts
burgh Rebels believes he has another
Lhief Bender in Pitcher Clinton Rogge.
.- * »
The Pittsburgh club has given South
paw Pltcher George Sisler, the Michi.
gan university recruit, his uncondl
tional release. -
. . . *
The Montreal club has traded Outs
fielder Frank Kippert to the Seattle
club of the Northwestern league for
Pitcher Fullerton,
. oe
Shortstop Heinle Wagner has “come
back” strong. His arm Is in better
condition than ever. The only thing
worrying Boston now is, can he stay
bank?
William H. Lacy Says One Dose of |
Mayr Remedy Ended His
Troubles.
William H. Lacy of Washington, D.
C., for three years suffered from de. |
rangements of the stomach and diges- |
tive tract. He was threatened with |
an operation.
He tried Mayr's Wonderful Remedy.
In a short time he declared he had
been restored. He wrote: i
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day with a miserable feeling and was |
treated by the best doctors, whom I |
know made some wonderful cures, but |
i
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1
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surgeon to operate on me. I read of |
bottle. |
Whatever there was the matter with |
me has disappeared and I feel as well |
as ever. They say I am a little aged: |
I am 63 years old. I feel as well as
I ever did in my life.”
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He Knew Daddy.
The eight-year-old son of a famous
lawyer was one day by his |
governess to a court of which |
his father was expected
Pp. rticularly brilliant speech
Mother, | heard father make a fine
speech today,” said the his
return home. “And what do vou think?
Father almost cried, and he made
some of the jurymen cry, too!
“And you, i
Oh, no—he
plied the heir and pride of the family
taken
in
make a
law
to
boy on
07" asked his mother.
'
cant get over me!” re
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a's rejected
Bob--RBo sb
Ned
ol
Y es
Oh, 1
luck’
Know!
WOrse
don’t
Doubtful,
How is your mother, T
betts Fr.
* Was yesterday
She's but not
He IOWiY eRe has
% pee }
after it
ind in
boiter
one re
ranger pas
of yvoesterday
faut
Whe
Eph Wiley asked
Louis has opened a ne
Washington univer
uildings
er to hold yous
but a pul
scientifically
Lut arr exchange of
WOULD HAVE MADE TRADE
sgusted Drummer Was Willing to
Accept Joking Offer if the Law
Had Allowed It,
# -
A traveling salesman for a Ganse-
voort street wholesale grocery
recently back from a trip through the
!
i
!
tells this possibly true tale:
“One day on my last trip | had a
six-mlle ride to make
seat, and the small village in which
I was had only one horse that I could
hire and no other form of convey-
ance. |] may say that a friend had
landed me in the town that morning
from his car and 1 had goods
enough the expenses of the
sold
LO pay
“Well, 1 got away on the sorriest
specimen of a horse 1 ever straddled,
carrier, though not as a
package, It
cover the
parcel post
hours to
sorry
as |
took me two
distance] was
hadn't walked-—and
passed the county jail on my old bag
of bones a face grinned at me from
between the bars of a small square
window I too sore to smile, but
I nodded to grin prison
er called to me
mister,’
to trade
was
the and the
Say, he said, ‘how'd
for 350
you
like
that critte:;
Just then I would have been glad
enough to have traded, but the
wouldn't let me, and
New York Sun
Dogs in Warfare
of sheep
wounded is a
The
seek
GORE 10
return to
Belgian use
the
methods of
the
out
the warfare of an
Scottish clan feuds,
fights
day In
lish with Scot
or that
Ww with
off
when
g£ them
nwounded f
reds
ih Dia vic
has
water or
oF
Oman
med]
ead
gently
attained
a
TAKE COMFORT IN TOBACCO
Soldiers at the Front Find Bolace in
Their Supply of the “Booth.
ing Weed.”
Good stories about smoking and
smokers continue to fill the space in
British papers not occupied by
news of “major” engagements
The following tribute has been dara
to Gen. Bir Phillip Chetwode by Bergt.
A. Bowler of the Fifth Signal corps,
R. E., who is at the front: “1 have
watched him calmly smoking a ciga-
rette when shells have been dropping
@all over the place. 1 think that if all
the German army were firing at him
he on as smoking
his cigarette and giving hig orders as
if he club ordering =»
drink.”
In mid-February German soldiers on
‘ru frontier received dally two
or an equal
snuff or
would carry usual
were at his
the wesnis
cigars and two cligareties,
amount of chewing tobacco
pipe tobacco,
Couldn't Bee Any Face.
An friend, whose name 1 won't
ment told this one: ‘I was
born and brought up on a farm, and 1
Habit of going around with my
especially if there
anything unusual going on. One
whom | had not seen for
init
sald
old
ion me
had the
mouth wide open,
WHR
day an uncle
years paid us a v
incle! looking up
opened like a
moment
said
sonny,
me for a
and then
mouth, so |
¥ are
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Rooms for Rent
professors furnish
! life It
f a large university
te of “large,
wered
enllegs
} sf school
¢ ' §
TB Bul
all any
: my
GOW,
head.”
told a
ay have
tell me
and 1
tell
His Fitness
COL of your i 3
the bar
the once over,
to
arber game
quickly
as the
about
church
“Good
i
he
a Sereai Co,
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