|?^||P if & %.m ••".'V fli ?fO? ikM- \0^ SIX SSft «fe The pinch hkter's life is far from being a continual bed of. roses. To the casual observer it appears pretty soft for a man to sit on the bench every afternoon for seven or eight innings, with nothing to do but watch the game and then be called on to step to the plate in a pinch to hit for some weak sticker. Nothing of the kind. The man that is kept on the pay roll to do stunts of this sort has his work cut out for him, and even though the rest of the regulars tell him what a snap he has, not one of them would willingly exchange places with him. The pinch hitter holds his job be cause he can swat the ball. Every time he Is sent In to hit for some one he is aware that it's up to him to deliver a safe drive. He has been Bit ting on the bench possibly the greater part of the afternoon without getting a chance to see what sort of stuff the pitcher is serving, and he knows that the moment he steps to the plate the flinger will deliver everything in his repertoire. Then everyone in the stands is looking to him to#clout and banking on him to make good. The fans seldom take into consideration that, no matter how good a hitter a player may be, he only makes one base hit about every three trips to the plate. He never knows what mo ment his manager will take out some weak batter that he cap be substi tuted. About the only chance the pinch hitter has to feel jubilant is when he has been called on to perform and drives out the base hit that re turns his club victor. To have the cheers of the fans ringing in his ears at a time like that is mighty fine, but Fifteen-year-old Perry McGillivray of the Crane high school at Chicago, is probably the greatest swimmer of his age, size and weight in the world. Considering the fact that Perry is just a little over five feet tall, weighing 123 pounds, and has been swimming for only two years, his performances over the shorter distances have been noth ing short of marvelous. Under the careful coaching of Swimming Director Frank Sullivan of the Illinois Athletic club at Chicago, McGillivray holds the Perry McGillivray. interscholastic record for 40 yards at :19 4-5. Daniels' world's record for the same distance is :19 3-5. McGillivray made his record in the second inter scholastic meet held in the I. C. A. tank recently. Perry not only is good at 40 yards, but has a record at 100 yards of :59 2-5.', Perry swims the Australian crawl stroke and is quick as lightning in getting started. Sullivan thinks the little fellow will surely be a candidate to represent the United States at the next Olympic swimming contests. Lo cal swimming experts look for him to lower several of the records hung up by the "human pickerel" Daniels be fore long. Fred Pfeffer, than whom a greater second baseman never drew the breath of life, was asked one day to describe the most ludicrous play he ever saw on the diamond. "Well," responded Pfeffer, after a moment's deliberation, "I think the funniest thtiffg 1 ever saw occurred in Brooklyn one- afternoon daring Brotherhood year. I had rec ommended a young pitcher named Barston to Chicago and for a short time he went along in fine style. But he wound up by turning a trick that recalled the story of the man who, not knowing the game, threw the ball to a personal friend on the other team every time he got hold of ic Barston Was in the box this afternoon. With man on third and one out, the in field was playing ckwe, watching for a, chance to retire the runner at the plate. Barston bent one over, and the next Instant had grabbed a hot sounder that came to him like a flash. For a second he stood dazed, while the man on third raced home. Then the thought oL the man who recom- ^»=v^*.l ^^fflwiided him W 'Anson' .-must have ^^MM&Matxmk Barston, for while there was S me to getifhe nattier .going home, he ,.... whirled and although I was within six feet of him, he slammed the ball at -.•^feiJBM, almost knocking me down, I man- WiMg»a.to get hold of the pill in some 'J' :-Wm*y, and essfly threw the man out sj| •rst, bat tie other mas •cored/' lM Vt-^Ppi^§|^fe^^ v^* ?oft:?' w*!if«M*H»#i*ttM^NMaM^^ does it atone for the times after he performers of the highest class, and has failed to deliver the much needed hit and on his way to the clubhouse he hears some particularly rabid fan yell: "Get out, you big mut! You couldn't"fall out of a boat and hit the water!" FEW PLAYERS LONG WITH SAME TEAM MAJORITY SHIFTED ABOUT AND NOT MANY WHO HAVE NOT PLAYED ELSEWHERE. RECORD OF FRANK CHANCE Captain and Manager of Two Times World's Champions Has Served with Chicago Club Ten Years— Plank and Mathewson Each on Re spective Teams Seven Years. Frank Chance, captain and manager of the Chicago National league base ball club, two timesworld's champions, has finished his tenth consecutive year of service with that organization. He has been with one club longer than any other professional player now in the diamond arena. There are not many players who have never been with more than xrae club. Considering the number of players in the big league fold, they are few and far be tween. Chance has served with only one team since coming into major league ranks, but in that time he has been employed by two owners. The first was Jim Hart and the second Charlie Murphy. Chance joined the Chicagos in 1898 as a catcher. He also has played in the outfield for them,' and from a raw recruit has worked his way up to leader of the strongest baseball team in existence, and con sidered by many the greatest ever or ganized. His Is the reward of merit, and, not being a rolling stone, he has gathered a share of moss. Yet to be a rolling stone in baseball does not imply im providence, nor is it a reflection on the ability of the player. There are play ers who have changed about who are who have laid aside nest eggs of com fortable size. They have stuck to their work none the less faithfully for hav ing roamed under the various ban ners. Johnny Kling is another warrior un der the Cub standard who has not played big league ball elsewhere. He came to the Chicagos in 1901, and has been there ever since, catching many games each year, taking the pounding of many pitchers season after season and with no falling off in the quality of his work. He is one of those day-in-and-day-out catchers who do all the better work for doing a great deal of it. The back stop is the recipient of more actual battering than any other one man on a team, and in view of this fact it is somewhat surprising that some of them—such as Kling, Bresnahan, Doo in and Sullivan—can do so much work and do it so well. Eddie Plank, the crack pitcher of the Athletics, has been with Connie Mack for seven consecutive years, and with no other. He has come to be as much of a fixture in this city as Chris ty Mathewson has in New York. Like Plank, Mathewson's big league career has been confined to one team. He pried his way into major company the same year as Plank—in 1901. The New Yorks came mighty near losing Mathewson on a couple of occa sions, one when he was about to jump to the St. Louis Browns during the war time, and once when he was trad ed to Cincinnati for Rusie, but was traded back before the season opened. In 1905, when Mathewson and Plank faced each other on the slab in the opening game of the world's series, each had come to his respective club an unknown, and in the interim be-, come famous in the same length of time and without changing employers. Fred Clarke, Tommy Leach and Hans Wagner are conspicuous exam ples of men who have not been with one club alj the time they have been in the National league. They have, however, been with one employer all that time—Barney Dreyfuss. They were with Dreyfuss when he owned the Louisville club, and came with him to Pittsburg. In due time they will pass out, possibly playing in some other city before retiring, though that is not likely, but when they do step down and out Plttsburg ers will feel that they have sustained a personal loss, so firmly have Clarke, Leach and Wagner, become part and parcel of the Smoky City baseball and its traditions Pittsburg has helped make them famous, and they will have done the same for Pittsburg. Fred Tenney was a faithful toiler for the Boston Nationals for even long er than Chance has been with the Chicagos, hut Tenney no longer Is Identified with the fortunes of the Hub. He arrayed himself with the Boston forces' in 1897, probably is as good a ball player as he ever was, and yet he nowV|S ^seeking his livelihood in anoth,e^f^ld.-\ "that'sthe way In baseball. •?fwd other Pittsburg* kattdbys are the two pitchers, Ssffi'Leever and Dea con PhflSppe.: Thejrare as thorough ly ingrained in the Pirate baseball fabric asTcotton fn catted. Both have, been with the Pittsburg club steadily, since 1900, and have known no other master. r' Only the owner of the Philadelphia Americans has signed the checks that have ^rewarded Chief Bender's dia-* bond services since he has Been a member of the national game's elite. The Indian pitcher joined Connie Hack's team in 1963. Carl Lundgren, of the Chicago Nationals, and Bob Swing of the Cincinnatis, have done all their big league pitching with one That was the time when McGinnity earned the sobriquet of "Iron. Man." He would work six days a week, pitch ing for country teams all over central Illinois, and on Sunday would go to Springfield and play with the Spring field team, many of the members of which have since become famous and not a few of whom.have since passed away. President Kinsella of the Springfield club was a member of this team and remembers the connection between H. C. Smith and Joe Mc Ginnity in the olden days. Smith was one of Joe's stanchest and most consistent admirers, and from the time he first knew him until the present day, his admiration has not abated. In 1895 Smith left Auburn and went to Chicago,'where he became engaged in a brokerage business, at which he prospered. Later he became connected with his present company, gradually working his way to the top, until he was a man of wealth. Learning that the New York Giants were going to release McGinnity, Smith at once arranged with Joe to get hold of some team, for which Smith was to furnish the money. The result was the purchase of the Newark club, the dream of an ardent baseball fan and admirer brought to realization, and a home assured the famous. Joe McGinnity, all through the regard, which a station agent in a country town felt for a ball player whom he considered the best he had ever known. Forth Worth has a catcher named, Wick. He gets all lit up after every victory. Galveston has two players named Wolf and Wolfolky Odd combination. Herzog of the Giants is one of the few Jewish players in the garni/ McAleer thinks he has a prise in Arthur Griggs, a Texas lnflelder. Griggs can hit and field almost any position.... Griffith announces that he will carry two men for every infield position this season and' two extra outfielders: *„tetrolt has four bald-headed jriayers --Crawford, OXeary, Kllllfer and Schaefer. ..'.,.' "'^C" Pat Dougherty again has pushed himself back to the left field for the .White Sox. displacing Cravath. The Minneapolis and St Pant own ers threaten to transfer their fran chises if the. Minnesota legislature prohibits Sunday baseball. '?•-§&: pto& Doe, the former New Bedfofd Worcester-Providence magnate* keeping his. eye open for another New England league franchise. It all the deals for baseball grounds at the Arkansas Hot Springs go &r»ugh, no fewer than six majoi tongue teams will train there next BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1909. WILL A N A E MINNEAPOLIS MILLERS cVbe''We// The new manager of the Minneapolis American Association team is a veteran of the national game. Last season he had charge of the Boston Nationals. W W W W A W W W W W W W HERO WORSHIP RESPONSIBLE FOR RECENT BASEBALL DEAL Interesting Story Connected with Pur chase of Newark Club of Eastern League. There is an interesting story con nected with the deal whereby Joe McGinnity and H. C. Smith of Chicago purchased the Newark club of the Eastern league, which reveals the identity of Mr. Smith and portrays the rise of a penniless man to a million aire, who remained true to his first love in the baseball world. H. C. Smith, now known as a lead ing member of a Chicago manufactur ing company, was station agent for the Chicago & Alton railroad at Au burn, a little town south of Spring field, 111., working on a modest salary, with nothing better in view, 12 years ago. He had been a resident of that part of the country since about 1870, and it was in those days that he learned to admire Joe McGinnity as a ball player. A A A A TWENTY-TWO SOUTHPAWS ON AMERICAN LEAGUE ROSTER Eleven Recruits Now Being Tried Out by Various Teams—St. Louis Has Four. The eight American league clubs will have 22 southpaw pitchers on their rosters this spring. Of this num I ber 11 have seen more or less service in the American league, while the oth er ten are recruits, one, Wolters of Boston, having had a brief experience in the National league. St. Louis is a little better fixed as to southpaws numerically than most of its rivals, having four left-handers In Waddell, Bailey, Graham and Swift. Waddell was one of the few American league southpaws who won more games than he lost last season, his record being 19 victories and 14 defeats. Bailey won three out of eight, while Graham won six out of 13. Swift, who pitched for Wilkes barre, won 24 and lost 16. New York also has four southpaws, "Doc" Newton, Wilson of Hartford, Schmidt of Baltimore and Vaughan of the Arkansas State league. New ton did not do much in the American league in 1908, but Schmidt won five of his six games in the Eastern league. Wilson won 21 and lost 12 for Hartford, while Vaughan won nine and lost only one down south. He failed to distinguish himself, however, with the Yankees last season, being very wild. Connie Mack has Eddie Plank, the old reliable Krause, the California high-school boy, and Salve, from the South Atlantic league, as his left handers. Plank flailed to break even last year, winning 14 and losing 16, but Krause, after being farmed out by Mack to the Trl-State league, won 17 and loBt but four. Salve won 14 and lost 15 in the, Sally league. Chicago has three offside Singers In Altrock, White and Sutor, the last named being from the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league. Sutor won 26 and lost 20 games, White won 19 and lost 13, while Altrock won but three out of the ten games he pitched. Boston will worry along with Bur chell and Wolters. Burchell, who is a Baltimore recruit of the preceding fall, won ten and lost eight games for the Red Sox last year. Wolters, formerly a Red and Cardinal, was a minor league phenom last season, winning 25 and losing only two games for the San Jose team of the California State league. Washington's trio of southpaws are Burns, who won six and lost 11 games for the Nationals In 1908 Gray, who won 26 and lost 11 games for Los An geles, the championship club of the Pacific Coast league, and Jesse Tanne hill, who hopes to regain his effective ness this year. /*?,'. ,(, One veteran and one. young south paw will be on the Tiger •. pitching staff, Killlan being the veteran and Speer, from 'the Wichita club of the Western association,' being the re cruit I 4$u While two of the clubs have* four southpaws apiece, three haye three apiece., and two are equipped with two apiece Cleveland has bui oner left handed pitcher and he is a semi-pro., Andreada, from Los Angeles. U. of V. Has Another "Find." In Stanton, the star half back of the University of Virginia .football team last season, "Pop" Lanhlgan, trainer of the university track team, bejleves be has discovered another Rector. Stanton holds the record.for the quar ter on the Pacific coast and has done so wen in recent tryouta at the uni versity that Lannlgan believes he can be developed into a promising candi date for interdblleglate honors for that distance. He will represent Virginia In the quarter at the intercollegiate games at Cambridge this year. Kling Will Quit Gams for a Yearv Johnny Kling, the. Cubs' star catch er, has wired Manager Chance that he cannot find any one to take' care of his Kansas City business and would therefore be unable to play hsjl this VETERAN CATCHERS WORK AS COACHES FORMER DIAMOND STAR8 VALU ABLE IN WHIPPING YOUNG STERS INTO 8HAPE. TRAINING OF COLT PITCHERS Those Who 8how Promise In Need of Careful Watching. 8o That They Do Not Injure Themselves—Old Hands at Conditioning Game Round Into Form 8lowly. blg-league teams as special coaches for the young players under trial. Last year Manager McAleer of the Browns inaugurated the innovation by appointing Jack O'Connor as assistant manager or special coach for the St Louis team, ond so successful did the plan prove that this season three other major^league clubs have signed vet eran catchers to coach the young twirl' ers, and Manager McGraw has gone a step further by signing Arlie Latham to coach the New York team during the game. This is not Latham's first job of this kind, however, as he held the same kind of a position with Cin cinnati while John T. Brush, now pres ident of the New York club, was the principal owner of the Reds. "Kid" Gleason of the Philadelphia Nationals, Charlie Farrell of the New York Americans, Jom McGuire of the Cleveland Americans,, and Wilbert Robertson of the New York Nationals, are the four who hold positions as spe cial coaches of the players. The training of the young pitchers in the spring is one of the duties which every manager gives his strictest at tention to, for it means a great deal' to the club as well as the pitcher. Every year each club in the major leagues has several pitchers on its list who never make their appearance in a regular championship game. But this does not mean that they have been found worthless. Many of them are not ripe for big-league company, and when they are sent back to the minor leagues for another year of sea soning the manager of the team that sends them back generally has a pretty good line on what may be expected of the youngsters in the future. In selecting the promising material and picking out the men who are worth carrying on the regular pay roll it Is the wisdom of the veteran player that shows itself, and this is where veteran players like Gleason, Farrell, Robinson and McGuire come into play. When the team goes south for its spring practice the young players need to be watched. Ambition to show up in good shape before the manager, with the hope of landing a permanent place on the team, often causes the young player to injure himself, so that he is of little use to the club for several weeks, and this means heavy expense to the club, and probably the loss of a job to the player. .The reports from the southern train ing camps are generally filled with what the young players are doing and how fast they are working. But one seldom readsiof the veteran players killing themselves getting into condi tion in a hurry. They have been through the mill, and know what it is to take care of themselves until the time comes to let Out their true form. With a trained man in each camp to watch over the over-anxious players the chance, of haying the hospital list full all the time fs greatly lessened, and this is one of the things figured out by Manager Bresnahan when he decided to hold Billy Gilbert to watch the Cardinals in their-work. S O JOB FOR FORMER TIGER Eddie Siever, formerly with the De troit American league team, has signed |m with the Aberdeen club of the Northwestern league, better known as fhe PaxSlfic-Northwest, fat. a fat.' salary, with a non-reserve clause.' His salary' Is to be better than he received In In Olanapolls last year, though the league Is class B. Aberdeen finished third last year, its last pennant winner being 1M& but with the crack left bander land the bunting thisi coming This is the eighth year the ieagve hag bees under national nrptee- .,.,.*,,*..v»'*^**^^ IiT.ffffii'fflii Veteran ball players who have re tired from active work on the diamond and who have proved their ability to handle promising recruits to the mar jor league ranks are being signed each .. ..•-. __««••»•*. year by enterprising managers of the "?«™lal «?h„!nge:_andJ,1_v!d_!m*,l rf&^^^^ ,'i':ra''''iif vrry^-^••''"• NEW PRESIDENT OF S I I PHILADELPHIA NATIONALS Israel W. Durham, Leader In Stat* Politics,. Buys Controlling •n**r est In Club. W'• When 'the Philadelphia National league club changed owners the other day the majority of the stock waa\ bought by a man who for nearly a score of years has been the leading: factor in Republican politics in Penn sylvania, a lover of baseball and *11 sports—Israel W. Durham. Durham succeeded William J. Shettsllne as the president of the club, and having re tired from active participation In, pol itics, has decided to give his time strictly to baseball. He will therefore administer the affairs of his club, not merely being a figurehead. Durham is a Philadelphlan by birth. His father was a big flour merchant and prominent member of the Com- ripe age of 86 years, dying within the past year. His son, the subject of this sketch, acquired his education In •-. •. Israel W. Durham, the public schools, leaving the high school after one year's study, to en gage in the trade of bricklaying. Later he engaged in the flour business with his father and continued in that calling until he entered politics, about 2S years ago. His first political activity was in the early '80s, but it was not until 1885 that he accepted public of fice. He was then elected a magis trate and was re-elected in 1890— hence his title of "judge." It was at that time that Durham became a lead ing factor in the Philadelphia political world. In December, 1894, Qurham urged the nomination of the Hon. Boles Pen rose for mayor of the city, but in the convention which followed his candi date was defeated at the last minute.' A split followed in the Republican or ganization and Durham was recognized as the head of the movement which resulted during the year following in the building up of a new and most powerful drganization, with him as its chief. From that time he was recog nized by every Republican worker in Philadelphia as their leader. After the election of Senator Penrose to the United States senate in 1897, Durham was elected to the state senate, and he served for the balance of Senator Pen rose's term at Harrisburg. Upon the election of Gov. William A. Stone, Dur ham was. appointed state insurance commissioner, to which position be was reappointed by Gov. Pennypacker. This high post "he held hntil July 1,* when he resigned in order' that': he could go west for the benefit-of his. health. GIANTS WILL MISS DONUN Mike Decides to Play In the Vaudi vllle League This Season. '^^^.••.•^•^•••M^ Apparently "all is over" between Mike Dpnlin, the Giants' heavy-hitting outfielder and the New York club. Ac cording to latest reports, Mike has signed a contract with the Keith-Proc tor people which will take ,.tbk.cele£ 'M brated fence breaker into the middle of July, by which time the Giants ?ii will have Uma^'''i6'''^ix^iji^ikl^:-W^ Without him. .•*$•%••:• i' Hike ^said^jbo'j^i]^|t%^b$re .800 the vaudeville league, while his Ife, of an estal as accomplished and] charming actress. :jLv.. -®& Iddings 'to Coach at Snputatloncourseanhas Harold Iddings, half back on thel University of Chicago football teami tor the last four years, has sighed Contract to ccach the ^lami «oDetw^ eleven next falL The former .Maroonl-''^'"' Is well qualified for the posiUon, as hel wss 6niM9f the mainstays of the MldfiS way eleven during his fobtbsJi^caiwsrMplil and knows the game thoroughly. Stone," former director of athletics •Hmk0 the 0. A. A, and now athleUc directorf at the Ohio institution, WM festralp mental in getting Iddings to aocep# the position. :v* iV:*: •*V Mil Ti- $ ».'^-^.._ '!»«,i^^qpjda 'Wi jfc^r Donlln/whose principal 'clalhi^dls^fl:M tinction off the ball field is the fact that he Is the husband of Mabel Hite,p* says that he can make more money to faudevilfo than playlng ball, and thati heis out after the coin. He demanded salary of $8 000 from the New York 0ub, but was informed 'tfiat $6,000 was| as high as the management Intended! fo pay. After backing and filling for| nl severe* weeks, during. wMdist timef neither player nor club showed anyfc. disposition .to .make concessions, Jton4f pnT'decldgd'to fall for the.ttelplanl fhinf am* pass up his chanc* to wrestf the National league batting honors from his rival, Hans Wagner, '•M *SSY