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t . -Wanltl Wrbstrr.
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nn high, and contained In the hoty
writings. ' 'Sir John llr.-hel.
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each Individual enjoy the right of
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Ueorg Wllhelm Hegel.
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Revealed 'religion first Informed the
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burg his translation of the New
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thor but owes something of his mel-,
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Mine to chide me when I rqve.
Mine to show a Saviour's love'.
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Lord, I have made Thy word my'choice.
Mv lasting heritage;
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Becomes effulgent more and more.
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Dedicated to All My Old Comrades and Lovers of
the Sport, Who Have Made the Game What It Is
Today, and to All Those Who Will Continue to
Play Ball" After We Oldtimers Have Struck Out
for the Last Time.
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Svi4i-tA Coprrlvbt In Orval Drttaia
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(Ctitlgexl from lat Eancar
Frra Innings were played that, gam
tnd the scor was a tie, each ' team
aocrlcg but three, only one hit being
mad, off Baldwin and four off Crane.
It bad been arranged that after the ball
ttiM via over an American eleven,
with Bald-wla and Karl a the battery
and wlta Teoer. Wood. Fogarty. Brown,
llanlon. Pferfer. Manning, tiulilvan and
myself la the fie IS. should try our hand
at rounders with a team from the local
Rounders' Association. Instead of be
lag bag, the bases In tola game are
Iron stakes three feet la height, tb ball
the sts of the on used in tennis. The
batting Is done with one hand and with
a bat that look more like a butter
paddia than anything else. A base run.
ner ha to be retired by being struck
. with tb ball and not touched with It.
and the batter must run th first time
he-strikes at the ball, whether be hits
It or not. t
Well. It wasn't exactly In our line and
w gut walloped by a score of IS to 14. To
get even we- pervuaded them to try two
liming of baseball, and they found there
m more difference between our game
and rounder than they had dreamed of.
Tha scor stood St l to In our favor.
th crow! wandlng In a drenching rain
to see ti foa and apparently willing to
remain a good dal longer than It did.
At o'clock that night we took the train
for ntwooT on the ihore of the Irish
Channel, aruf.. two hour later we were
en' board th little steamer Prince of
Wale, steaming aero the "bit of silvery
that separate the "land of the
saints" from "perfidious Albion." I don't
exactly get on to th point of that joke,
but it's ther somewhere. It wa Bun
Uy morning when w landed at Belfast.
and I shall nevwr rorget me quietude ot
the place a Quaker meettng-houae on
first day was th only thing 1 could com
par It to. Certainly those North of Ire
land folks do keep one of th Comma nd
menta, .
Th next morning was a pussier In th
line of weather, but toward nfldday It
cleared up. and after luncheon we were
off in drag (or Hi North of Ireland
Cricket Club grounds, where w put up
another great gam In spit of the dis
traction caused by tha preface of th
biggest bunch of pretty girl we had
een atnea leaving America. At tb end
of tfie eighth inning th scor stood S to
T In favor of Chicago, but in tha ninth
singles by Wood and Healy and a cork
ing three-bagger to left field by Earla
ent two men across th plate and gav
th victory to the Ail-America by a
score of to
We were banqueted that evening at
the clubhouse. HI Honor the Mayor of
Belfast prea'dlng. and before the festivi
ties of th night were over w under
stood why -It was that Belfast was s
quiet ot Sunday el x days In uccelon
of the kind we had experienced were the
limit. Sunday was an absolute necessity.
Between Belfast and Dublin on our
way to the xapltal we passed through
a section of the most beautiful country
I ever saw. It was a big surprise to
roe. for I had heard and .read so much
about the poverty of Jreland that I
was prepared to witness some rather
harrowing scna Instead of that I
saw only a constant succef slarCof high
ly tilled farms and model villages
There may b starvation In the country,
but I saw ao evidence of It. Person
ally, want to say tight her that I
never came up against better eating In
my life, but of course we were com
pany, and were treated accordingly.
Beaching Dublin About 11 o'clock wa
took th rest of the day off. All the
boya of our party who had Irish names
went off In search of relatives and.
i Ljudglng from appearances on their re
- I turn, must have found them in large
numbers. Mrs. Anson concluded that
my name wouldn't pass muster, even
though I suggested hitching a "Mac"
before lt and so she appropriated me
for a day of sightseeing. I am not a
tiptop hand at the business of sight
seeing, but I don't mind telling you
that I found that day In Dublin a very
Interesting one.- We wound up at th
theater, a burlesque called "Arabian
Nights" being a headllner. At the
close of the first act I asked Mrs. Anson
if we hadn't better go, but she said she
could stand It If I could, and so w
stayed It out.
The gam we played that afternoon
was one of th best of the entire trip
from an American baseball critic's point
of view, although the soore was too
small to suit folks educated up to the
big scores that ar usually reached In
cricket matches. Baldwin and Crane
war both on their mettle, the fielding
was of th nobbiest kind and safe hits
were few and far between. Up to the
ninth Inning my boy led by two run.
but aria's three-bagger, Hanlon's base
on balls. Burns' fumble of Brown's silt
and Carroll's double settled our hash,
th All-Americas winning by a scor of
I to J. '
Th gsme made a total of 18 we bad
played since leaving Ban Francisco. Of
these th All-Americas bad won 14 and
th Chicago 11. three being tied. Now I
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WF it. T WASAfT EXACTLY
1M OUR'UNE.
don't care 4o do anything that would
lead you to believe me guilty of fall
ing back on the baby act, but I don't
mind saying right here that if It hadn't
been for the accident to Williamson's
knee In Paris the result would have
been different.
. CHAPTER XXXI.
I Am Loyal i the League.
E got back to God's country just
time for the opening of the
baseball season of 1889. We did
not have time to take our customary
early Spring trip to the" South Hot
Springs. Ark, .and San Antonio, Texaa,
wer our favorite resosta and-of course
we didn't need it, for we had accom
plished the hitherto unheard-of stunt of
playing ball for a fear without a lay
off. W couldn't complain of lack ot
practice, although our physical condl
tlon might not have been just ideal ow
ing to tha continual round of good times
we mtd experienced.
1 My teem that year consisted of Tener,
Dwyer, Hutchinson and dumbert, pitch
ers: Farrell, Darling, Sommers and
Flint, catchers; Pfeffer, Burnev Bastian,
Williamson and myself in tht Infield,
and Van Haltren, Ryan and Duffy, out
flffFBera. ' As usual, I was captain and
manager. Owing to the accident to his
knee that Williamson had received in
Paris he was not able to attend to busi
ness until late In the season, and bis
absence hurt our chances very materi
ally, as the old "stone wall'' was left In
a crippled condition.
When the season opened the Boston
Club seemed to be the biggest gainer
in the deal for play ene, and a -majority
of the fans looked for it to carry off
the pennant. Once more, however, the
unexpected came to para and the cham
pionship went to New Tork for the sec
ond time, that tesm winning 83 games
snd losing 43, while' Boston came next
with the same number of games won
and 45 lost, and Chicago stood third with
66 games wen and the same number lost,
Philadelphia. Plttaburg, Cleveland. In
dianapolis and Washington following in
the order given.
That fall, waa an exciting one for the
National game. What la-known In base
ball history as the ''Brotherhood re
volt" waa sprung, and for a time it was
pretty .strenuous work for a player to
find -out where he was at. It was a
movement that shook tha old league tq
Its foundations, robbing it of many of
Its bee players and upsetting all Its
plans In general. I believed .then, and
have never had reason to think other
wise, .that -the -whol business was due
to greed. The gam had become such
a money-maker that Its luelneas end
had put every other consideration. Into
the shad.
It hao been. charged time and again
that 'this brotherhood affair was hatched-
and put into working order by tha ring
leaders during the round-the-world tour.
It may or may not ba true, but I want to
say right here that I never heard a
whisper of It until late in that season.
The first I knew of it was when John
M. Ward came to me with a. proposition
to unite with the seceders, an invitation
I declined at once with thanks. I told
Ward frankly that the League had al
ways been perfectly square with me and
that It would smack of treachery for me
to leave it in such an underhand man-nth-.
He argued that the time had come
to work:' a change In baseball matters,
and I replied that I realized that the
players had some reason to put up a
"kick, but didn't Intend to let myself be
used as a catspaw to help a lot of greedy
capitalist) pull the financial chestnuts
out of the fire. .
Now. originally, the Brotherhood was
a secret organization formed for the
purpose of protecting1 the players in
their rights, and not for the business
WARD CAME Tt ME NITH
A PROPOSITI ON
of breaking up the old league - and
forming a new om in opposition. That
came in as an afterthought. The or
der began to show its power in 1887,
when it compelled the league to draw
up a new form of contract, in which
the rights of the players were more
clearly set forth. When this new con
tract was adopted, the full amount of
a players salary coaldn t be stated In
it on account of the $1000 limit clause
of the National agreement, and as the
American Association clubs wouldn't
allow this to be stricken out. the play
ers were mighty hot over It. They had
to sign contracts at $2000 and make
outside cbntracts for all they got over
that amount.
At the annual meeting of the league
in 1888 some 'of the clubs demanded a
ruling that would limit players' sal
aries, which i bad grown to enormous
proportions. . .The outcome was a class
ification rule which divided players
nto five' kinds: Class A to receive
12500; class B, 12250; class C, S3000:
class D. $1760, and class .E, . $1500. It I
was agreed among the clubs that this ,
'classification should not apply to play'
ers then under contract or to those who
were absent on the round-the-wor'd
tour. We were allowed two weeks af
ter our return to arrange matters be
fore being subject to classification.
John Ward, who .was the Brother
hood leader, was abroad at the time
this occurred, so no official action was
taken by that organization. By the
time he got home contracts for that
season had been signed and nothing
could be done. Ward favored a strike
at the time, but he was outvoted by
his followers. Just about that time
the New Tork management agreed to
release Johnny to Washington for the
sum of $12,000, the biggest price ever
offered for a player, .but Ward spoiled
the deal by declining flatfooted to be
sold to the National Capital club.
Then the kicking ' piayers appointed
a committee to present their griev
ances to the league, and President
Young named a league committee to
confer with the other. Mr. Spalding
was chairman, and he declined to meet
the Brotherhood folks until Fall, al
though they ' wanted an immediate
hearing." That refusal upset the tea
pot. The Brotherhood people began at
once, though with the utmost secrecy,
to plan secession.
- When I was made wise to the busi
ness,. I tried my best to persuade my
players to keep . out of the muss, but I
waan't altogether successful. Some of
tbem . wouldn't listen to me, among
them Pfeffer, Tener and Williamson.
although they made no move until af-
ici Luo iimyiuEc season was over, on
November 4, 1899, the Brotherhood
threw off the mask and announced the
formation of the Players' League,
which, as finally organized, took in the
cities of Boston, Brooklyn, New Tork
ana v nnaaelpnia in the East and Buf.
falo. Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburg
ever we started off on a three-mile run
I was at the head; setting the pace.
There's one thing I shall never have on
my conscience I never asked a man
under my control to do anything I was
not willing to do myself. I never forgot
that it was necessary for me to be In
good condition myself.
MV team for 1890 was made up as fol
lows: Hutchinson, Luby and Stein,
pitchers; Nagle and Kittrldge, catchers;
Anson, first base; Glenalvln, second
base; Burns, third base; Cooney, short
stop; Carroll, left field; Andrews, right
field, and O'Brien and Foster, substi
tutes with the solitary exception of
Burns, a lot of half-broken colts, many
of them newcomers In the league and
with reputations still to gain.
On paper it looked to be a great
scheme, but It lacked brains in its
management- As a natural conse
quent its career was a brief and
stormy one, with war to the knife and
knife to the hilt between the two
rival organizations. After four courts
had decided that" the players had a per.
feet right to leave the National League
and loin the rival body, each of the clubs
belonging to the Players' League signed
a compact to play with the new or
ganization 10, years.
In the West.
. CHAPTER XXXII ;
I Break a' Team of Colt.
tTHE revolt f the brotherhood left
A fne in pretty 'bad shape at the be
ginning or tne season of 1890. Tenor,
Williamson, Kyan, Pfeffer and all the
others except Burns left me with a
comparatively green bunch on my
hands, but let me- say right here that
before the Autumn leaves fell I had
turned it Into one .of the best teams In
the league, as was proved by our fin
ishing in second place.
No one who hasn't tried it appre
ciates the amount of work necessary
to break In a team of green baseball
colts. It was practically a case of Hob
son's choice for me, and I Just sailed
in and worked like a beaver getting
those boysj into pennant-winning con
dition. I dfdn't succeed quite as well
as Connie Mack did With his Athletics
last season,' but I came mighty near it.
It was bard -work and plenty of It. and
although soma of the boys shed tears
over the amount Of drill required of
them and the strict discipline I en
forced, they were obliged to admit in '
the long run that I was right and that
It was the only way to develop the nec
essary playing strength.
I. have never heard that . any one of
those players ever accused me of shirk
ing. I worked a mighty sight harder
than any ope else in the team. When-
The National.
League then got out a schedule of
playing datea that conflicted with that
of the other body, and the public got
so disgusted with the quarrel that it
gave the game the go-by. At the end
of the season the Players' League
bought the Cincinnati club, and that
left the old organization w'th but six.
At the close of the season a confer
ence was held to smooth out the tan
gle, which was financially disastrous
to all parties concerned. Secret meet
ings between the capitalists of the two
leagues were held, with the ultimate
result that the rival clubs in New Tork,
Pittsburg and Chicago were consolidat
ed. That deal broke up the brother
hood scheme.
The year 1900 was one of the most
disastrous ever known In the history of
baseball. On account of the quarrel,
the teams sometimes found themselves
playing to practically empty benches.
It was a big contrast to the preceding
year, which was the most successful
ever known by the National League,
money fairly rolling in at the gates.
There was never a time during the
season that we were worse than fifth
and on several occasions we "were right
up In the front rank. When October
came in we held third, and during the
short season that followed we passed
Philadelphia and took second position.
It certainly was an achievement to be
proud of, and If you think I failed to
flap my wings and crow a little you are
not familiar with A. C. Anson's makeup.
With the downfall of the Brother
hood I thought, very naturally, that It
would be a comparatively easy matter
to strengthen the Chicago club ma
terially. It didn't turn out that way.
diun t even, get my old players back.
some, of them retiring from the dia
mond altogether, and others being
scattered far and wide among the vari
ous league teams. That , Involved a
constant lookout and anxiety on my
part to secure new players. I was cer
tainly easy game for the kid with the
baseball bug ip those days. I didn't
dare to refuse- any applicant a tryout :
for fear that I might be turning down
championship timber.
(Continued Next Sunday.)