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Death ot Baseball Players’ Fralernily Brings Life Back Into National Pastime
Charles W. Murphy Says Game
Has Improved Since Elimination
of Fultz and his Organization.
By Charles W. Murphy,
Former President of the Cubs.
UITE a change has come over
Q those connected with baseball
gince the demise of Dave Fultz's
union, The complaint was common
Jast season that the players were not
showing any spirit on the ball fleld
and the games were devold of inter
est for that reason. A player would
get to first base, and, leaning on the
shoulder of the first baseman for the
home team, he would ask: “What are
they paying you this season, old
man?"
Before, during and after the games
on the field little knots of players
would congregate and schemes were
discussed on how to further hold up
the magnates, while the agents for
the union in each league city were
‘busily engaged almost daily posting
gome kind of bulletin or other from
Fultz’'s law office in the clubhouse.
The fraternal spirit was terribly
overworked and the game in general
suffered thereby.
The union had been a flat failure
and a detriment to the game hecause
rivalry had been practically de
stroyed. Players spent more time
shaking hands with visiting athletes
than in trying to win games, It was
evident that heroic measures were
necessary to restore the game to its
former interesting plane on the fleld
and to curb the frenzied finance which
had grown in the business end of the
sport during the time when Fultz as
business agent was playing the role
of agitator. The powers that be de
‘¢ided to give the union the “mackerel
eye." ‘
Game Begins to Improve.
From that time forward baseball
began to get back on its feet as a
game of chance and the old aggres
slveness was once more in evidence
Much of the handshaking was cut out
and the brotherly love stuff was not
8o evident on the playing fleld. Ty
Cobb and Herzog had a guht on the
spring training trip and subsequently
MceGraw punched Umpire Byron n
the mouth bhecause of an alleged in
sult. Then Pitcher “Babe” Ruth land
ed on Umpire Owens on the playing
field because he did not like a decision.
It would thus seem that baseball Is
A game of extremes. The rank and
flle of the great army of fans had
grown tired of the fraternal stuff,
but this season so far there has been
no just cause for complaining about
a lack of pep on the field.
It is not that the fang want rowdy
fsm-—-far from it. When they pay
their money at the gate, however,
‘they want to witness a contest. This
season in most instances they have
been witnessing regular ball games,
In the National League, however, the
mea have been detracted from
ely because of poor umpiring, but
the fans are glad that the fraternal
stuff has been canned, for a time, at
least. The Tener-McGraw Imbroglio
{8 the direct outgrowth of bad umpir
ag and has been kept alive too long
cause of those involved “passing
the buck.”
McGraw Case Badly Handled.
This case has been miserably han
dled. Why, it should have been for
gotten long ago. The way it has been
going lately the fans may be talking
about it the remainder of the season.
The idea of fining Manager McGraw
8600 and suspending him for sixteen
days for slapping the mouth of an in
competent umpire off the fleld was
gnponerous. Mind you, this slapping
appened off the hall field, and after,
McGraw claims, he had been insulted
by Byron. The true story of what
happened has not yet been told in
print, so 1 will tell it now.
Catcher Tom Clarke, of the Cin
elnnati club, was arguing under the
&und stand with Umpire Byron after
‘the game, when Manager MceGraw
"rlued on his way to the clubhouse
'or the visiting team. “I don't know
what the argument is about, Tom.,"”
sald McGraw, “but. whatever it is, I'll
bet you are right” Byron flew into
«» violent rage at that remark and
accused McGraw of having been run
out of Baltimore. McGraw then
_punched Byron in the mouth and fans
separated the men. That is about all
that happened at that time, |
Playing Baseball
Now in Venezuela
With discouraging comment on all
#ldes as to the effect that war by this
untry will have on American sports,
is somewhat refreshing to turn to at
t ome instance where the present
war in Europe would seem to have
benefited sports in no little degree.
The news comes from \’u-nnuefa, South
America, and is to the effect that the
maenitude of the sugar industry in the
continent south of us, resulting from
mo. demand growing out of the war,
attracted marny Cuban baseball
players to the continent and these men
nave organized baseball teams and
started to play the great American
eame.
«il of the South American countries
whose soil is adanted to the eultivation
of sugar, are sending to Cuba for expert
workmen, and manv of those who are
responding have been diamond stars in
m‘}%nrl of the Antilles. A= a result,
ball promises to hecome at least as
well known, If not as popular, In Latin
America as it 1= in the West Indies
The South Americans are a sport
loving people, and once the faseination
of the old cry “Play ball" fastens itself
upon them, there should he a wave of
#nthusiastic response throughout the
continent. The turnstiles at hull fights
may suffer. but this the minds of
many. would be a consummation de
voutly to be desired
Finish of Speed
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M_f‘é
HE attempt to hang a nick-
I name on our soldlers in
France is reminiscent of a
similar effort which was made in
" 1898, during
o
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S e, War, ‘espe
P 5 clally on the
¢'w 4 boonss West Coast,
‘ Ve ey when the old
w,A 7 r?ighrh Army
oy orps was in
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e P ‘f Bomeonae
’, v decided that
i 4 our boys
: ’; ought to
have a nick
name corresponding to the Brit
ish “Tommy Atkins,” just as it
has now been decided in France
that the Americans need some
such handle,
The nage picked in 1808 was
“Johnny Green.” Why “Johnny
Green” we canm not say. The
fact that the average reader prob
ably never heard of the title as
applied to our soldiers shows how
successful was the attempt, yet
It was quite frequently used in
many newspapers for a spell,
“Johnny Reg"” was another term
sometimes employed, applying
moge to the regulars than to the
volunteers, but it did not last
Probably both “Johnny Green”
and “Johnny Reg"” traced back to
the “Johnny Reb" of the Civil
War, the name the Northern sol-
Glers called the Confederates, but
we are not sure about that,
Anyway, neither “Johnny Green"
nor “Johnny Reg"” was pat enough
to stick. Now some correspond
ents are referring to the lads In
France as “Sammies,” and some
are calling them “Teddies,” both
names having a fairly definite ori
gin and meaning, but 1t is doubt
ful if either will survive for any
length of time.
Some nickname may spring up
later and cling; but if it does it
will probably be some extempora
neous name, and not one evolved
after profound thought, as seems
to be ;the case in the “Sammy”
matter, although at that “Sammy"
is preferable to “Teddy.”
A - .
May Come From Soldiers.
The name {8 more likely to
spring up among the soldiers
themselves than among the non
combatants, and it is still more
likely to be hung on them by their
allies,
It is a einch the American sol
diers will have new nicknames for
their brothers-in-arms—French,
English, Russian or Ttalian—and
a cinch that they will pull some
new tag on the enemy, for the
Yankee fighting man is marvel
ously prolific in digging up nick
names for everybody and every
thing around him, and especially
for his adversaries,
The “Fritz” and “Boche” of his
allleg may prevail with him for a
time as titles for the enemy, but
before he is through with the war
the American soldler is sure to
have a name of his own for the
German.
The war with Spain did not last
long enough for the American to
produce any other nickname for
the Castilllans than “yellow bel
lies,” but the Filipino quickly be
came “gugu” and “kacklack.”™
The Mexican, originaliy called
a “greaser,” has been a “spig” to
our soldiers for the last couple of
vears, and, in fact, “spig” is the
title the American now generally
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S2O Kept Leonard
On Way to Title
. ‘“How much is it? One, two, three,
four, five and five are ten, and ten
‘makes twenty dollars. When do you
fight again, Benny?"
| Such was the Earlbl scolding that
'Benny Leonard, the new lightwelight
champlon fighter of the world, received
from his father one night five years ago
when Benny returned to his East Side
home after boxing Young Cross a six
round, no-decision bout in Newark, N. J.
Purse Keeps Benny In Game.
The boy who was destined later to
wrest the world's title from Freddia
Welsh had won his hl(fin purse up to
that time, S2O in bills. ad the amount
been the usual $5 it is probable that
Benny would have -toppe(r his rln‘{ ca
reer right then and there and Welsh
would still be champion.
But S2O is S2O, even in the best re{u
lated lower East Side families, and Fa
ther Leiner was anything but a Soor
business man. From that time on Ben.
ny kept on fighting with increasing rtg
ularity and success, until today the
most admired object of art in the wida
world in the Leiner home Is a portrait
of a pair of boxln% gloves or anything
that savors of the boxing Erofeulon
Leiner Family Turn eonards.
Benny went on to trace his gradual
ascent up the ladder and recounted the
battles he had fought with the cham
pions of Sixth, Seventh and Elfhth
streets, angd he was always victorious,
and then the Leiner family moved up to
the Bronx, and with the change in resi.
dence came the change in Benny Lel
ner's name,
Miller Huggins Being
Lauded to the Skies
Miller Husflna is being lauded to the
skies in St. Louis because the Cardinals
are in the National League fight when
no one expected they would be.
About a thousand fans in St. Louls
are personally interested in what the
team does This may mean trouble in
the future, though it works for popular
ity during a successful season,
The ideal ownership of a ball club
calls for one man to control it, with just
enough other good fellows to talk about
the club in the right places.
Cricket Match Pays
$2,329 to Red Cross
NEW YORK, July 21.—George Shaw,
treasurer of the Red Cross benefit crick
et match &nyed at _Livingston, remitted
W on Poer Trench., chairman of
the American committee of the British
Red Cross, the sum of $2,329, represent-
Iln; the total receipts of the undertak
ng.
fi‘reuurer Shaw expressed gratifica
tion over the fact that it was not neces.
sary to deduct a single penny for ex
penses, inasmuch as the cost of printing,
[ro:dndl and music, etc.,, was all do
nated.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN . A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1917
applies to all dark-skinned races
It is sald to have originated in
Panama, and is derived from the
inevitable “no speaka da Eng
leesh,” or, as the soldiers under
stood it, “no splgga,” of the Pan
amanian
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“Doughboys” and Others.
A foreign correspondent writing
of the new nickname of our sol
diers, sald it was chosen because
it carried more meaning than the
term "doughboy,” it evidently be
ing his impression that American
soldiers generally are called
“doughboys.”
Ag a matter of fact, only infan
trymen are called “doughboys.”
The derivation of the term Is un
known to the writer, but an army
officer versed in such lore once
advanced the theory that it was
probably eginally conceived in
more or less derision by the cav
alry.
The “doughboy” has, In retali
ation, a name for the cavalryman.
We have heard the fleld artillery
man occasionally called a "wagon
soldier,” and once we heard some
soldiers on the border refer to an
aviator as a “flapper,” but these
namen are not fixed and definite
or in general use,
“Doughboy” is part of the sol
dier language. The infantry does
not resent the name, and so far
as the infantrymen are concerned
they will probably always be
“doughboys" regardless of the
nickname of the American soldiers
in general.
It 1s a difficult matter to arbi
trarily affix a nickname to any
body or anything. A nickname
can rarely be ordained; it must
be extemporaneous and It must
fit. Time and time again organ
ized efforts have been made by
sporting writers to renickname
gome baseball club, only to meet
with failure, so far as the public
is concerned. \
The name Yanks, applied to the
American League club of New
York, is a case in point. It isn't
a particularly appropriate name
nowadays, but they have never
been able to change it.
. . .
How Names Stick.
The sporting writers managed
to arbitrarily switch the name of
the Boston Nationals and get
them called the “Braves,” but then
the “Braves” never really had a
good name before that,
They were called the “Beaneat
ers” and “Plligrims” and “Doves"”
and the like, but these names
never became popular with the
public. The Yanks have been
called the “Highlanders,” “Kil
ties,” “Invaders” and finally “New
Yorks,” but “Yanks” is the name
that stuck.
They have never been able to
dig up a good nickname for the
Philadelphia National League
club, “Phillies” seems to be the
best the writers and fans can do.
It is the same with the Wash
ington American Leaguers and the
Cleveland club. The latter ni‘e
called the “Indians” by Cleveland
writers, but the name does not
strike the popular fancy.
The man who first called the
New York Nationals the “Giants”
assisted largely in the fortunes of
the owners of that club. The title
has been one of the club’'s very
greatest assets for many years.
It is very doubtful if any organ
ized effort, no matter how strong,
could ever change that name
with the public.
It does not always exactly fit,
but it is something which appeals
to the popular imagination, and
that's the sort of name that will
have to be hung on the American
soldiers if it is to stick.
Expect Philly Girl
P lly
To Win for U. 8.
The remarkable swimming perform
ances of Miss Olga Dorfner, the Phil
adelphia girl, who so handily won the
national water lpr(nllng honors for
women last summer in San Francisco,
arouses hope once more that at last
America has developed a' swimmer who
can bring to ‘;hla country the various
world's records for swimming.
Heretofore Miss Fanny Durack, the
Australlan, has held a virtual monop
oly of the women's record from 50 yards
to 1 mile Miss Dorfner capped the
climax of a serles of startling per
formances extending over several weeks
by lowering Miss Durack's record for 500
yvards. The Quaker City girl covered
the distance in 7:321-5.
As the meet was held under the
auspices of the Middle Atlantic Amateur
Athletle Union, and was pmgerly con
ducted, there is no reason to doubt that
a world's record will be granted Miss
Dorfner. This will make the first split
into Miss Durack's long strong of rec
ords and fi\'en an Indication of the f\os
sibilitels that the comlnf meets hold.
Miss Dorfner primarily has been a
sprint swimmer and her best work has
been done at distances from 50 to 200
yards. Her triumph at the longer dis.
tance was a surprise and now the short.
ar distance marks should fall to her
speed.
Too Much for Huggins
CHICAGO, July 21.—Miller Huggins,
leader of the St. Louls Cardinals, intend
ed to become a lawyer when he was a
lad. He liked to play baseball, but pos
sessed such a keen mentality his par
ents insisted he follow the law.
S 0 the youth abandoned bats and balls
and took up the texthook. He studied
lon% and laborifously in the schools of
his home town, near Cincinnati. and aft
erward took a course in the University
of Cincinnati, from which he was grad
uated with high honors.
Later he was admitted to the bar of
Ohio, but it never has been recorded
that Miller Huggins, lawyer, hung out
his shingle. The lure of the dlamond
proved too strong for the embryo Black
stone to resist.
Hugging had made a reputation in
Cineinnati and environs as a ball player,
and he had no difficulty flndlnf employ.
ment on the diamond. He liked the
game because it afforded an opportunity
to think. And Miller Huggins will go
down in the annals of the pastime as
one of the greatest thinkers in the game.
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‘Herman Willing to Box for Ban
tamweight Title in Baltimore.
American A. C. Is After Bout.
HILADELPHIA, PA., July 17—
P Kid Williams, of Baltimore,
has been eager to regain his
world's ° bantamweight title. The
Peerless gthletic Club, of the Moun
mental City, in which his present
manager is sald to be interested,
made a bid for the match., In order
to close the deal quickly it offered
to present Champion Herman with
SI,OOO over and above the purse the
moment he stepped into the ring.
Herman accepted these offers
through his new manager, ‘“Red”
Walsh, byt insisted that no man from
Baltimowme should be the third man in
the ring. The writer placed himself
on recgrd in declaration that all the
money in Baltippre could not tempt
him tp officiagg in a Herman- Williams
bout so lapg 48 the latter was con
trolled b his present manager.
This J;duetion was made after
one of the men interested in the Peer
less ("lub caused it to be given pub
lHeity that the writer stood in the
way of a match. Immediately a man
from New Orleans with an unsullied
reputation was elected by Manager
Walsh as his choice for the third
man in the ring. Since then the club
men who made the great offer and
who were so eager for Willlams to
regain his title have kept painfully
quiet,
Herman to Start Training.
Red Walsh will start Champion
Herman training on July 23, His
first battle in his summer, autumn
and winter campaign will be in New
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OOK at the buying of your car as you would look at
the buying of your home. You can find a house at
almost any price you would care to pay. Butthere
are certain necessities you must have if that house is to be
a home. You wouldn’t, for example, try to get along in
tiny, cramped up, uncomfortable rooms. Neither would
vou live in a house with cheap plumbing, inferior wood
work, ill-fitting doors and rattling windows.
Without going into luxuries, there are certain neces
sities you must have to justify your calling your house a
home—a place you will be proud to own.
It is the same with your car. It must have a certain
amount of size, roominess and wheel-base to make it
really comfortable and free you from the need of constant
apologies. It must have materials of a certain quality to
insure its lasting the proper time to justify your investment
init. It must have the proper weight to make it hold
the road. It must seat all its passengers in comfort.
You wouldn’t buy a house that lacked the real neces
sities because it cost a few dollars less. Even so it is false
Four-Cylinder Models
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FOUR Touring Car . 985
FOUR Landau Roadster 1150
FOUR Every-Weather Car 1183
Al prices f. o. b. Detrois
Orleans August 6 with an opponent
to be selected by the home promoters,
After that he will be ready to tackle
any boxer in the bantamweight class
who takes issue with him, Just as
#OON as arrangements are made he
will visit the North and East and
meet any 118-pound boxer the clubs
may elect.
Williams, however, 18 his first
choice for a long battle. Baltimore
can stage a nfleeq or twenty-round
‘contest. The latter is preferable to
Herman, as he wants to stop the for
mer champion inside the limit right
in his own city in order to prove to
the fans that he 1s Willlams' master
over a championship route. They
have boxed in all fifty-six rounds —
two contests of twenty rounds each, |
one of ten and another of six. In
each opinlons were divided as to
which was the winner. Herman is
now anxious to make it decisive.
Shoe on the Other Foot.
Williams dictated the terms of both
previous championship matches, se
lected his own referee and received
a llon's share of the purse in each In
stance. Now Herman calls the bluff
and will do the dictating. He wants
twenty rounds at 118 pounds ringside,
the lion's share of the purse and a
referee of his selection. These were
the terms conceded to Willlams
twice; now the shoe is on the other
foot. If the former champlon refuses
he will virtually confeas that he lacks
cenfidence in his own ability and is
fearful of the result.
The American Athletic Club, of Bal
timore, a responsible organization, is
willing to stage the match, Its
matchmaker, SBam Harris, will make
a substantial offer to Herman and
will see that he gets the bonus and
will deposit the entire amount of the
purse with any bank or individual
Herman or his manager, Red Walsh,
may nominate.
If Willlams 18 sincere in wanting a
return match here is his chance.
Gym Twice a Week
The College of the City of New York
permits women to use the gymnasium as
part of a course in organized recreation
for women, under the auspices of the
Department of Health. The women will
also be permitted to use the hand ball
and tennis courts. The classes will be
held Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
Men who are taking similar courses will
have use of the gymnasium on other
dlrl. Marching tactics and callsthenics
will be the Frinclml courses tauih the
men, whila the women will learn the use
of the gymnasium’s apparatus and prac
tice light exercises.
Buy your car as you would buy your home
Hadobsen
There will be no change in Studebaker models this year, but the increased cost of materials
and labor may force Studebaker to make an advance in prices at any time without notice.
!‘Grgat’ .Um.pires Aze Born
{Rough Stuff Fatal to Game
l EW YORK, July 21.-—ln the
N umpire trouble in Cincinnati
between John McGraw and
Byron can be seen the outcome of an
evil that should have been crushed in
its inciplency, says Ted Sullivan. The
elements that make up an ideal um
pire are not mixed in every man,
Umpires, like great judges and ref.
erees, are born, not made. Ball play
ers can be got, but not great umpires,
and this fact should be impressed on
‘the public.
~ The personality of an umpire on the
‘ball fleld and his demeanor has a
command in itself. The great um
pires that flgured in the history of
the game from its professional be
ginning were Doesher, Daniels, “Hon
est John" Kelly, Bob Ferguson, Bill
McClean and the late Jack Sheridan,
of the American League. These men
were strong physically, and when they
entered a,ball fleld there was dignity
and poise in their manner. We have
today Hank O'Day, Bllly Evans, Mc-
Laughlin, Connelly, and a few others,
all Airst-class umpires.
To Err Is Human.
The greatest umpire will err once in
a while, and when it is considered
that they have but the fraction of a
second to render decisions they do re
markably well at that. However, um
pires, good or bad, must have the
backing of their president and league
or their work will go for naught.
Ban Johnson grasped the situation
when he knew that, for the game to
live, umpires must be protected. Let
me add, however, had not Johnson
the support of the strong-minded,
practical ball men of his league, led
by Comiskey, he could not have solved
the umpire problem the way he has.
If owners of ball clubs had the
practical good sense of Comiskey—
who knows when the duties of his
players begin and end—there would
be less trouble with those officials.
The toughness of managers and of
players with serpents’ tongues crept
into the game from the city lots of
our big cities. Their baseball skill
brought them into major leagues, but
they should have been divested of
their slime in the form of bawdy
house language and their mouths
STUDEBAKER
FACTORY BRANCH
245 Peachtree, Atlanta
washed before they put on a major
league uniform,
Rougn Stuff Fatal to Game.
The serpent’'s tongue Kkilled the
game in Cleveland, and that so bad
that the team was transferred to St
Louis under the Robinsons. The foul
attack referred to was taken up by
managers and players of other teams,
who assailed the players of opposite
teams with unprintable epithets, and
even went into the private affairs of
a player's family to enrage and rattle
him. It seems that some of the mod
ern umpires were tainted with this
billingsgate. If umpires were in
structed to drive from the coaching
lines any player or manager who re
sorted to those tactics in the form of
lowbrow, roughneck language the
stuff would be killed in its infancy.
Let me say also that there are some
umpires who lower the standard of
their position by indulging in cheap
wit with players during a game and
by *“fanning” around hotels at night
with them. The American League
umpires as a class set a good exam
ple for umplires in other leagues.
“Fan” umpires with a butterfly
personality do not belong In the game.
1 can understand the nature of the
fracas between Umpire Byron and
Manager McGraw. There are some
managers who are such hard losers
that they would fight a buzz saw after
losing a game, and McGraw is one of
them. It is a Celtic temperament
and can not be helped, no matter
what penalty it suffers. You can not
make champagne beer in its flavor
any more than you can make an Irish
temperament Teutonic.
On May 23,1917,
Koob Made a Hit!
'
~ On May 23, 1917, Pitcher Ernie Koob,
of the St. Louis Browns, made a hit. It
was a single off Ernie Shore. These
details are given because it is some
‘thing of an event in Koob's life. It is,
according to the records, his first hit as
a majt?r league player.
Koob had several bets that he would
get a hit before June 1, and those on
the losing end are alleging that Shore
was in on a plot to collect for Koob
and split with him.
economy to buy a car that lacks the essentials of motoring
satisfaction because it is cheap to buy.
In the Series 18 Studebaker Cars you get all the
needed essentials of complete motoring satisfaction at the
lowest possible price.
When you realize that Studebaker, one of the largest
producers of cars in the world, enjoying all the economies
of great production and great resources, makes a smaller
percentage of profit per car than the small car manufac
turers, it 1s obvious that Studebaker includes in its cars
those features that small cars must curtail; and quality,
both of material and workmanship, that you cannot
reasonably expect to find in small cars at their prices.
What is a small initial saving compared to a great sac
rifice? Be wise—before you decide what car to buy see
the Studebaker.
Nearly every automobile manufacturer has made an
increase in prices, but Studebaker prices still remain the
same as they were last Spring. This further increases the
value of Studebaker cars in comparison with all others.
Hans Wagner Was
Wise to Quit Job
As Pirates’ Pilot
HICAGO, ILL., July 21—
‘ Hans Wagner showed wis
dom when he decided to
throw up the sponge as a man
ager and return to the ranks of
ordinary players under Hugo Rez
dek. The fans always have made
ar idot of Honus as a player,
and many of them expressed re
gret wnen they heard that he had
consentad to try his luck at han
dling the Pirates.
The critics foresaw disaster
starirg Honus in the face and
were fearful that the effect fit
might have upon him would
shorten his career and possibly
drive him out of the game before
the present souson is ended.
Honus has reached that age
where he must conserve all his
energies. Any additional mental
strain is likely to be reflected in
his physlcal* powers. He ig play
ing on borrowed baseball time as
it is. His life as a player has
Leen of unusual duration. Few
men have lasted as long as he,
2nd few have been so valuable,
However, as old as Wagner |s,
in a baseball sense, thare are few
players in the sport today worth
as much to their clubs as Wagner
is to Pittsburg. Wagner does not
like criticism. He has never had
to stand for any amount of it,
because he has always attended to
business, always has given the
club his best efforts, and, even
when he was in a slump, was able
to do so well that his temporary
shortcomings could be overlooked
without difficulty.
As a manager, Hans could not
escane some criticiam, and he
would have hal cares galore. The
task of leading any ball team is
strenuous enough, but when a
man is in command of a tail-end
er, his task is exceedingly difii
cult.
Any man who is trying to pilot
an aggregation like the Pirates,
who are lacking in: color and
ability, iy up against it for fair.
There is no doubt that Wagner
realized all this, and for these
reasons insisted on Dreyfuss cast
ing about for another man to
shoulder the responsibility.
Six-Cylinder Models
SIX Roadster ¢ . 81250
SIX Touring Car , . 1250
SIX Landau Roadster , 1850
SiX Touring Sedan . 1700
SIX Coupe . . 4 1750
SIX Limousine | 5 2600
All prices 3. 0. b, Detrois