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"LITTLE SUNSET," BY CHARLES E. VAN LOAN NOTES AND COMMENT ON SPORTS TOPICij
BARRY NEXT OF ATHLETICS
GREAT MACHINE SLATED TO GO
BASEBALLY SPEAKING
Manager Mack Declines to Confirm or Deny Well-founded Rumor
That Great Shortstop Is to Be Cut Loose in
Process of Building New Team.
Jack Barry, considered the kins of ahbrtstops two year ago, la to be
traded by tho Athletics, According to n, well-founded rumor. When asked ovor
the ionU'dlstance telephono whether there was anything to the story, Manager
Mack said that he had nothing to say. Then oaked If It would bo safe to deny
the rumor, Mack said that ho did not think It would be snfo to deny any
thing concerning probable changes In his club. Ho wan much riled because
eomo other American League manager tipped oft the fact that waivers had
been asked on Bpb Shawkcy. Mack had planned to moke a deal for Shawkey,
but when this scheme became known he decided to close an outright sale for
his former star.
That Harry's position with the Athletics was none too secure was common
gossip among fans on tho Inside, as It Is nald that he has Blowed up consider
ably. While this might be true, there is no denying the fact that Barry was
playing wonderful ball at tho time of his Injury. If tho rumor proves true
It will not really occasion much surprise, as It is generally believed that Mack
U going to build from tho ground up.
The passing of Barry would leave only "Stuffy" Mclnnls, of the famous
1109,000 Infield and would be right In Una with Mack's original policy. When
he built his wonderful machine five years ago ho started by cutting down his
entire Infield, loavlng the veteran Harry Davis at first to steady tho young
sters, Collins, Barry and Baker.
Mack Gets Healy, Shortstop, From Pittsburgh
During his career with the Athletics, Barry has played shortstop In a
manner that made htm a fitting rival of the wonderful Monto Cross, and Jack
was, even more valuablo to tho team, becauso he could hit hnrd in tho pinches
nd was a great man on tho bases. Barry's probablo successor, If he Is cut
loose, will be Hoaly, tho youngster signed by Manager Mack In Washington
yesterday. Mock has been after thin lad for somo tlmo and offered htm every
Inducement to glvo up college to Join the olub at onco. Hoaly had another
year at the University of Pittsburgh, but several long-distance phone mes
sages to his home In West Virginia took tho lad to Washington and ho decided
to give up collego after a talk with Mack,
Shawkey's reloaso was a surprlso to some, but it was no secret that
Shawkey had convinced Manager Mack that ho could not stand the gaff with
out a hard-hitting club behind him. In building up his new pitching ataff
Mack must have men who can stand plenty of work and he allowed Shawkcy
to depart.
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Young Crowcll Pitched First Game Two Years Ago
Toung Mlnot Crowcll pitched a splendid game against Washington, and
With an eyen break of the luck would have carried the wonderful Johnson Into
extra innings. It looks as If the Athletics have picked up another collogc star
who Is going to step Into the breach mado when Flank, Bender and Coombs',
three old collegiate pick-ups of Mack, were released.
Crowell never pitched a game of ball until two years ago. Prior to enter
ing Brown University ho was an outfielder and played centre field at Mel
rose (Mass.) High School. At Brown he wan used In tho outfield In his
freshman year and probably would never have been a pitcher but for an acci
dent that caused Coach Pattee to send him in to finish up a game that was
hopelessly lost. He looked so good that he received another chance and de
veloped rapidly. He was born at Melrose, Mass., on September 10, 1893, and
tands 6 feet 1 inch In height, weighing 185 pounds.
Phils' Poor Hitting and Sorry Fielding Lost Game
The Phils lost to Brooklyn yesterday because they could not hit. Sherrod
Cmlth. a, young southpaw, who beat tho Phillies in Brooklyn recently, again
had Moran's bunch at his mercy. They had but ono chance to score and then
Smith easily retired the third man and left a runner stranded on third. It Is
seldom that a southpaw has much success against tiio Phillies and Smith's
two successive victories over Moran's men are noteworthy.
From the stand it did not look as If Smith had as much stuff as other
southpaws who have been driven from tho mound by the Phillies this season,
but being a cross-flro artist, his delivery is deceptive.
Eddie Plank waB always at his best when he did not appear to have much,
and this probably was true with Smith.
But that is not remedying the batting slump of the Phillies. That they are
till In the slump Is evident. There is better pitching In the National League
this season than tho old league has seen in years, but it is not only tho
pitching that has prevented Moran's team from hitting. They are merely In one
of thoso unexplalnablo slumps, and the fans may be thankful that Moran has
a game team of natural long distance hitters and sooner or later they will
scut loose.
Rlxey's Pitching Deserved a Better Score
Eppa Bixey's pitching was high class and had he been supported as well
as Smith it is likely that tho game would have gone Into extra innings. The
first run was secured becauso Rixey knocked down a ball that would have
been easy for either Bancroft or Nlehoff. Of coursa Rixey could not tell
this and deserves credit for moving around more than is his usual custom.
The second run was duo to tho failure of Nlehoff to recover an Infield single
on which O'Mara scored from second. The last two runs were gifts puro and
simple. With one out, Myers doubled. He stole third when Burns could not
handle a low pitch from Blxey. O'Mara followed with a bounder to Byrne.
The latter made a great atop, but followed with a bad throw to the plate and
Myers scored. O'Mara then pilfered second because Rixey failed to waste a
pitch properly and again Burns did not even have a chance to throw tho ball.
After Wheat had forced Daubert, who drew & base on balls, a double steal was
tried and O'Mara scored while Wheat took third on Burns' throw Info centre
field, Thereafter the Dodgers did not even have a chance to score, but they
had more than enough runs with Bmlth pitching such great ball.
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Becker's Great Catch Feature of Game
It was one of those games where but few opportunities were offered the
fielders to make spectacular playB and was naturally uninteresting from the
standpoint pt the fan. A wonderful running catch by Becker off Wheat rob
bed the Brooklyn outfielder of a triple and brought cheers from the crowd,
whtlo Cutshaw made a beautiful gloved handed catch off Blxey that prevented
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"LITTLE SUNSET
Wee John Wesley Learns to Cuss in Orthodox Baseball Fashion
and Proceeds to Bawl Out the Players Gua, the Terrible
Swede, Goes on a Secret Mission With the Youngster.
By CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
The world's most famous wrltor of baseball fiction,
Manager Robinson, of Brooklyn, has already discovered that It is next to
Impossible to keep Phil Douglas in shape. Douglas broke loose again, and has
been Indefinitely suspended. It is a pity that a player with such a bright future
should throw his chance away. Manager Henog, of Cincinnati, sold Douglas to
Brooklyn because he could not make him behave,
Jack Karat, who played with Strawbrldge & Clothier last season, has re
joined Brooklyn after 1Z weeks' absence from the game as the result of a broken
leg- suffered during the training season. Karat Is a third baseman, and, as this
has been the weak spot In Robinson's team, he will have a thorough trial, as he
showed up well before the accident Connie Mack took Karat South two years
ago, but released him, as the Athletics were well fortified with utility men at
that time.
Regardless of whether or pot Wheat was actually out In his attempt to steal
second In the third Inning of the. Fhll-Dodger game yesterday, there was little
cause for Bancroft to kick himself out of the game. The absence of Bancroft or
any other regular -weakens the team, and they should think of this and word
their objections so they will not be banished from the game.
Charley Brlckley'q Great Record at Harvard
Charles Brlckley is one of the few Harvard athletes to win his "H" three times
In a single year, and It la all the more creditable that he accomplished it after
feeing handicapped with a late start on acaount of appendicitis. He got Into the
Yaje football game just long enough to fool completely the Ell and to make
possible Harvard's last touchdown.
Then he virtually won the dual traok meet for the Crimson by winning the
ehot put. Npt satisfied with pinch bitting li) fpot.ball and trofik, he drove In the
winplns run In the deciding game of (he baseball series.
Brlckley closes a notable career with hja graduation this week, and It must
be eaid of him that he has been ft model which school boys; might copy with
profit.
'rtrtrlt" Jnnp. .Iffnn with tha ADdChef. B.
major lottguo team. As baggage, ha brings
bis rcd-lieailed son, John Wesley Jones
When his lfo died Jonos promised ncer
to fonjake tho child, and so the joungster
has lived on baseball diamonds almost alt
his life.
They christened John Wesley "Little
Sunset," and he shone In glory reflected
from his father's brilliant performance,
and while Jones, Senior, was capturing
the newspaper men, Jouca, Junior, was
making friends among the players.
"Ho ain't a bad kid," said Pete Carr.
"And smart, tool"
"Like a razor!" said "Walrus" Pot
ter, the change catcher.
Ous Bergstrom, tho mighty hitter and
the highest-priced baseball player In the
league, voiced no opinion nbout the lad,
but Carr noticed that Bergstrom offered
to lend Brick Jones ono of his bats, and
as the Terrible Swede seldom noticed a
recruit, Pete wondered what It meant.
One night at the hotel Bergstrom heard
John Wesley ask his father for a base
ball suit.
"You're too little," said Jones. "Walt
a while I"
The next day Bergstrom stole away
from the ball park, taking John Wesley
with him.
" want for (As Md two suits' laid Out,
"We take a little walk," said Ous.
No one by looking at Qud or listening
to his conversation would ever have
suspected him of having a soft streak
in his peculiar make-up, but there was
a white-haired girl In Minnesota whom
Bergstrom had been trying to forget for
JO years without any great degree of
success.
That walk brought them to a tailor
shop, and Ous produced from his pockut
two pieces of flannel, one gray and
the other white,
"I want for iha kid two suits," said
Que, "and you make 'em yust like a big
league uniform."
"Yes, lr yes, sir, Mr. Bergstrom,'
said the tailor, flustered by near con
tact with so much greatness. "Your
little boyr'
"No." said Ous, "I kind of adopted
him."
'Now, little fallen" said Ous, as they
walked back to tha park where the
members of the team were practicing at
running out bunts, "don't say a word.
W surprise 'era."
John Wesley bobbed his head. He, too,
knew how to hold his tongue,
"Will X have ft cap like yoursr he
asked.
"By Ylmmlnyl" said Bergstrom, slap
ping his thigh with a resounding- smack,
"I forget the cap, and he remembers
It! pure! You will have two caps!"
The strange couple went back to the
ball park, hand in hand.
"Pipe that big boob of a Swede!" said
"Sea, Cow" Hamilton, the pitcher
"Jones, I'll bet that fellow tjas been fill
ing your kid up on ice-cream soda or
some other fool stuff!"
'Yust a little secret we hava togetherl"
said Bergstrom. grinning.
That night the Terrible Swede lent
for pens, Ink and paper, and laboriously
sweated out an order for two caps, two
pairs of stockings and one small pair
of spiked shoes and a glove, "tho same
as you make for me." This done, Berg
strom addressed an envelope to tho
sporting goods house which supplied the
Apaches with their uniforms and equip
ment. Slipping downstairs, ho dropped
the letter Into tha box.
Tho day beforo tho Apaches left the
spring training ground, for the North
ern trip, Bergstrom lured John Wesley
Into his room, and thero fitted him out
from head to foot, complcto from tho
button on tho top of the cap to tho
tiny spikes on tho soles of tho seven
dollar shoes.
"Now, you're a yenulne big leaguer,
kid," said Qua. "I guess wo show them
other falters, hey?"
Next day tho ball players swarmed
aboard their special car, and that night,
after all the berths were made up, tho
porter saw a strango sight. Qus Berg
strom, tho highest-priced man in base
ball, tho greatest hitter of the decado,
the man who had shaken hands with
two Presidents and shaken his fists at
millions of ordinary citizens, Bat In tha
smoking compartment of tho car, pain
fully sewing buttons on a pair of knick
erbockers. "That Yones. he don't know that If
somebody don't fix these pants, the kid
won't have nothing to hitch his sus
penders to," said Ous In a lame attempt
at explanation.
Thus early In his acquaintance with
tho Jones family, the lumbering Berg
strom placed his finger upon the weak
spot In the relation between father and
son. Charlie Jones had been a good
husband and a proud parent, but when
It came to caring for the dally wants of
his small son, he was as helpless as a
hen in a duck pond. Almost from the
very first, llttlo Sunset became the
chargo of the entire team, and particu
larly the charge of the silent and some
times taciturn Bergstrom. It was with
a feeling of relief that Jones watched
tho process of adoption.
Little Sunset amazed the ball players
by his easy acquisition of all sorts of
baseball knowledge. Like his father,
who was fast making a big-league repu
tation. Little Sunset seemed to absorb
the Intricate problems of the gamo with
out an effort, and before he was seven
years old, he knew every sign used by
.the team and could anticipate and Inter
pret the team's method of attack, play
by play.
"Bom right in him I" Jones used to
say proudly. "With the start he's got,
what a whaling great Infleldcr he'll make
some dayl"
"Judge" Kennedy, who pitched his
way out of the medical profession and
Into big-league baseball, often tried to
persuade Jones that t was his duty to
send the boy to sohool.
"Ntxl" said the fathsr. "He's learn
ing fast enough now, ain't heT He can
read a little bit already, and he studies
out nil tho dope on the sporting pages
now. He's a shark with a box score,
and I'll bet he knows more'n most of
the official scorers In this league. Of
course he'll go to school somo time, but
It won't be until he's 10 or It, and then
I'll put htm In a swell boarding school
on tne Hudson River,"
If Little Sunset knew nothing about
tho multiplication table, thero were other
things with which his little mind was
Btored the things which a boy must
learn by close association with careless,
outspoken men. This was a pity) and
often, after a close game had been lost,
Bergstrom would pick the little fellow
up and walk out of the clubhouse.
"Come on, kid," he would say. "W
go play a little catch, htyT"
There were times when Jones doubt
ed the wisdom of the course Imposed
by the promise he had made to the
boy's mother. The first time he thought
seriously about It was when he heard
his son and heir rip off an easy string
of crackling oaths.
"Here, son, said Brick quietly, "that
sort of talk won't do. You'll hare to
put that out."
1,Well, that's what I heard you sayl"
replied the boy. "And. anyway, that
was a h I of a play for Potter to makel"
The men on the bench roared with
laughter, and of course the boy thought
he had said a smart thing. All little
boys are alike When It ee-mes to "show.
Ing off."
After three seasons spent on the ball
field, In clubhouses, commercial hotels,
and Pullman cars, John Wesley Jones
was a finished article.
"Hcfs a wonder!" tha ball players
were wont to remark. "We'll back him
against any kid of his size In tho coun
try. He can fight Ilka a pirate, cuss like
a trooper, and you ought to seo him
shoot craps I Ho knows more Inside
baseball than his father. The only man
on tho team who can do anything with
tho kid Is Bergstrom. And oven Gus
don't get vory far with It!"
Every time the Apaches took tho field
for practice, Llttlo Sunset would swag
ger out and take his place In tho line of
pitchers. His Imitations of the Sea
Cow and Judgo Kennedy were always
good for laughter and applause.
"Isn't that llttlo follow cute?" said tho
m omen.
"Swoll-hcaded lltle pup!" said the men.
"Look at him posing out thero I"
John Wesley Jones had long ceased
to bo a chargo; ho had become an Insti
tution. Ho carried his own llttlo suit
ense, attended to his own laundry, or
dered his own meats, selected his
clothes, and regnrded every man on tho
club whd had been thero moro than a
year as an equal, with tho exception of
Ous Bergstrom, who still remained his
Idol. Players on probation nnd untried
men Llttlo Sunset regarded as "busti
ers," and treated accordingly.
John Wesley Jones was thoroughly
and completely spoiled, needing noth
ing so much as an old-fashioned spank
ing. His father should havo given It to
him, but Brick Jones had found other
Interests, Including a lady with sus
piciously blond hair, and ho had little
time for his son.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW.)
RICHARDS REDVSTATCD
BY MIDDLE ATLANHC
OFFICERS AT MEETING
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Olympic Champion Higlj
Jumper Is Given Gleai
Papers on Excess Ex
pense Charge by Hale &
Kilburn A A. '
Aima w. Jtienaras, of Cornell Unl
verslty, Olympic high Jump champion
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Club during the summer time, has been
reinstated.
At a meeting of tho Registration Com
mittee of the Middle Atlantic Association
of the Amateur Athletic Union last night
both sides of tho case wero reviewed.
It was clear that tho Hale & Kllbum
Athletic Association, whloh Instituted the
charges against tho jrroat athleto because
it folt ho had exceeded reasonable ex
penso claims, had erred as welt as Rich
ards, and tho committee placed tho star
in goon standing again. :
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hnvo an extra attraction at its contests'
held hero several weeks ago, and sent forj
Richards, agreeing to pay his expenses'
for six days. '
When Richards rocelvcd tho sum oil
IS9.G0 for his expenses during his stay!
noro ino uaio a luiuurn otncials pro-i
tested.
As Is common with the A. A. TJ.,'
without giving tho athleto an opportunity
to clear himself, he was summarily sus.i
pended, In this cobc, as In others, lti
linn linnn nrnvM thnt tlita ,velflm f ,t.&'
A. A. U. Is entirely wrong.
Athletic followers aro Indeed pleased to
find Richards reinstated, The fact that,
tho athloto Is ono of the greatest attrac-'
tlons In America In fact, In the world
makes It hard to understand nhy ho was
brought Into an unenviable light.
It was tho agreement of the Halo &
Kllbum ofrtclals to pay his expenses, and,
according to tho statement of one of the
officers Richards was urged to compete
hero, and with the understanding that his
expenses wero to be paid for a tlmo longer
than the A. A. U. allows. The Hale &,
Kilburn organization Is a young one and!
not up on A. A. U. laws, and did not.
know It was violating the codo, it is true,
but that did not lessen Richards' embar.'
raBsmcnt.
To complcto the order of reinstatement'
Richards must return $21.75 of the J59.M.
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