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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 5 Introduction a This year SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE, BALL GUIDE,' now an annual magazine rather than a technical publication of detail which goes to make Base Ball history, extends greeting to thousands more of enthusiasts than it did in 1910. No publication in the world is more artistically illustrated by accurate photographs, in which this year's issue surpasses previous efforts. We can reckon with a certain amount of accuracy as to the marvelous growth of the business detail of the sport, but how can ~t ~ we reckon with any accuracy the increase of Base Ball interest? Perhaps it may be computed on the basis that every American boy who steps from dresses to knickerbockers becomes an ardent Base Ball partisan. Probably this is mostly true and such being the case think of the thousands of votaries of the pastime whc are recruited every year in a great republic of millions of inhab- itants. But Base Ball does not rely for all of its increase in interest upon the part of its creators. Little by little the leaven is work ing all over the world and the editor of the GUIDE would call par- ticular attention to its readers to the prophesy which is made in this issue by Mr. A. G. Spalding as to the future of the national pastime. While not all of the Base Ball clubs of 1910 were prosperous to the extent of declaring bulky dividends on the investment whict had been made, it is a most encouraging feature that those whc 1t ~ were promoters of the clubs shouldered their losses and made few complaints. That means that the standard of the sport, on its professiona: side, is growing higher and broader. It is only those who entei the game for profit alone, and without any care for its developmenl or conception of its national importance who are most disregardfu of its claims upon the highest of sporting ethics. It is usually the poachers who cry the loudest and rail most bitterly against th, laws which defend the property rights of others. The major league races in 1910 were not so closely conteste( as they have been in some other years, but there was no lack t( the artistic attractiveness of their games. For instance in the l middle of the season, as is related more at detail in the pages o the GUIDE, the Chicago club of the National League by supreme effort pulled itself together and played with the splendid mechan ical and mental ability of former seasons, one of the greates spurts which has ever been made in the history of professiona Base Ball. In the American League we find the slow evolution of a firs class team finally realized in the clever combination which ha< been put together by Connie Mack. The enthusiasts among Phila delphia sportsmen who had sat from year to year and watched th careful building of this organization, rejoiced ten times more in it success than if it had been a nine suddenly thrust upon then The Class A leagues were successful and their steady growtt e - in that which goes to the essential success of organized Base Bal Yq~ simply means that their permanency is annually being reassured b improving conditions. The opinions of our newspaper friends are published in regar to the matter of batting and the symposium is worth careful atter ' ' tion for it reflects public opinion over a large area of the Unite states. - ) To those who have assisted in making this number of the GUID w e0of interest to its thousands of readers the thanks of the publishel and editor are returned.

JOHN B. FOSTER, Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.

Editorial Comment BY JOHN B. FOSTER. "A man who phules with prosperity alluz makes me think of a dodderin' idyut, who started a run on a bank in wich he had hiz muney, jest to see if anybody wud beleeve wat he sed when he told his frends the bank was shaky in its nee joints." From a personal interview with "Josh" Billings. It has been the unfortunate history of Base Ball that in th days of its greatest welfare there has been a tendency on th part of some players to break away from the organization withou which the sport would be a scattered and meaningless athleti diversion. No necessity exists for the editor of the GUIDE to go into th corroboration of this statement with detail. The history has bee made. It is common history. It may be read by any who are s inclined. Strangely enough this tendency has been manifested at perioc of about every ten years. For that reason, therefore, it is n remarkably strange that there was a disposition on the part ( certain players in the maior leagues during the season of 191 to lend their assistance to the efforts of a promoter towai establishing a rival league to those now firmly entrenched in tl larger cities of the United States. The method by which the players were to be secured was the nature of a large bribe, otherwise known as a bonus, in co: sideration of which the men who were approached were to dese their Base Ball allegiance to take up with an absolute uncertaint The players, a few of them who were frank enough to conver: upon the subject, made the primary reason for their willingne to revolt the ruling of the National Commission, which forebai them to engage in a series of post-season games. Other reasoi were ascribed, none of which were particularly new. Some playe have always been choleric at the mere thought of organizatio especially those who are most in need of restraint. The unrest of certain players, the tendency to revolt again discipline, the greed displayed in egotistical demands based , the arrogant claim that the player is all there is to Base Ba the assumption of the individual right to act without conti to the detriment of the general body and successful future of t pastime, are matters which it is not the intention of the writer discuss. There are some points, however, to which attention may called without prejudice to any one. It has been the theory of the ball player, at least of a pf of the men who constitute the professional Base Ball body, tt Base Ball wars, as they are called, are beneficial to the play( in that they raise salaries. A more fallacious doctrine never was advocated. We nc but look to the past to see how far it is from the truth. In t year 1889 Base Ball was at the height of its greatest prosper: up to that period of its history. Then came the Brotherhood war, as it has been called. I outlook in 1888 was so good that the season of 1889 warran- an increase in salaries, in spite of the fact that Base Ball v not conducted on as fair and equitable a basis as it is at present time.

4t^ ~ SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 9 Players who live with the idea that at any time organization in Base Ball is to be a dead letter, may as well disabuse themselves of that opinion one time as another. If, for the moment, they desert the organization with which they happen to be affiliated, they must not confound their theory of personal liberty with the presupposition that they are to go to another organization which will permit them to do as they please. There would be rules and restrictions in the outlaw league, exactly as there are in the league which stands for the best interests of all principles concerned, and the difference between the outlaw league and the league of good standing is that the out- laws would impose their fines and reprisals as they feel like doing, and the player, without redress, would be' compelled to submit or get out of the game. Organization in Base Ball has built up a court, rather a series of courts, with a supreme body in control, whose history is a page of the fairest and most just decisions which have been handed down by any tribunal in the history of sport in the world, and this statement is made advisedly. Any professional player who believes that he has been unfairly treated is at liberty to address this court and request considera- tion of his case. Not once, but repeatedly the player's claim has been substantiated and the redress which he sought has been granted after the testimony has been heard. This admirable realization of effective Base Ball organization is cited to show how conditions have improved within recent years, for there was a time when the player was subject to the arbitrary dictation of owners, who knew no law but themselves, a condition which would inevitably exist outside of organization. There has been no time when the salary rights of ball players were so firmly secured as they are now. It is no longer a question NO of whether an owner will pay salaries justly earned. He must pay them, or forfeit his standing with organized Base Ball, which means his downfall. There is still another momentous and grave problem to be con- sidered, and that is the duty which organized Base Ball owes to the public. This is a factor which embraces both the owner and the player. The player of the most radical views cannot successfully main- tain that his rights are paramount to those of the owner. The latter shoulders the burden of responsibility. He assumes not only the financial obligations, which are elementary to the game, but the safe and honest conduct of the sport. He must preserve its integrity and build daily to its advance- ment. He must meet the contractual promises which have been made to the players whom he engages, and he must cater to the good will of his patrons. He has valid property rights, which not only are recognized in the courts of Base Ball, but would stand any legal test in the land. No judge would take from him the authority to establish such rules as he feels are best for his interests. Wherever his interests are involved, it is apparent that the interests of the player are also involved, for disaster to the owner would bring about disaster to the player. ff ~ When the player subscribes to a contract he pledges himself to abide by the regulations and rules which govern the sport. The owner cannot be asked to permit his privileges to be jeopar- dized by unwarranted action on the part of the player, and he cannot be censured for insisting that the player shall not, as a

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 13 After carefully reviewing the suggestions which were made to Spalding's Official Base -Ball Guide, the editor would respectfully say to the officers of the major league organizations that he finds a general opinion among Base Ball statisticians that all of the work of each pitcher should be taken into consideration some- what as that of the fielders and the batters. Making a consensus of the theories, which were cogently placed before the Base Ball enthusiasts in the pages of the GUIDE, the editor would suggest that in compiling pitchers' averages in the season of 1911 a percentage of the work of each pitcher in the box be obtained on the foundation of chances offered and chances accepted. The chances offered would be the total number of At Bats regis- tered against each individual pitcher less the number of men who reach first base by error or by passed ball. The chances accepted would be the base hits, bases on balls. hit by pitcher and sacrifice hits recorded against each pitcher. For example, Smith has 300 times at bat against him, less 20 first base on errors. The total is 280. The number of base hits made against him is 50. He gives 15 bases on balls, hits five men with a pitched ball and is batted for ten sacrifice hits. The total of those chances is 80. The percentage is found by dividing 80 by 280. The result is .286. Naturally the lower the percentage of the pitcher the better his work in the box. It is suggested that in compiling these averages there be included in Times At Bat both the bases on balls, sacrifice hits and hit by pitcher, because all of these are chances offered to the batsman and accepted by him. For the same reason, instances of first base on error are to be deducted from chances offered, for a pitcher should not be penalized for the mistakes of the fielder, who has an opportunity to retire a man before he can begin his circuit around the bases. This plan is respectfully submitted for consideration by you as officials and by the rules committee of the major leagues. Its obsct is to begin an effort to make the records of our pitchers amuatJ te more thian they do at present. JOHN B. FOSTER. Secretary Heydler was prompt to reply to this letter as follows: "I have read with interest your letter suggesting reforms in arr ving at pitchers' averages, and agree with you that this would be t good time to inaugurate a change. "My idea had always been to keep a record of every run for which the pitcher is responsible; something like the old 'earned run,' except that I would charge against him (before chances were offered to retire the side) all the runs scored except those result- ing from errors on the part of the fielders or from passed balls. In this way, each hit, sacrifice, base on balls, hit batsman, wild pitch and stolen base (for which the pitcher is often responsible) would become a factor in finding the pitcher's true work. In computing such 'earned' or 'unearned' runs, I would not exempt the pitcher's fielding errors; this to safeguard any possible attempt to play for a rmtcord." Ill reply to this communication the editor of the GUIDE addressed Mr. Heydler, suggesting that it would be possible to combine both platis. In the first place a record could be had of all the men who reached first through the fault of the pitcher. That would be based on the plan outlined in the first communication to the league offi- cial. In connection with that it was suggested that a record be keptt of the runs for which each pitcher is responsible, practically on iche basis outlined by Mr. Heydler, the average of such runs to be obtained by dividing the total by the number of games or by the timers at bat.

1, Manager Frank L. Chance: 2, Tilnker; . IIufman: 4. Slc'(k.ll. A GROUP OF CIICAGO NATIONALS, 11.10. Coiilc . !I, I, '.

bPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 15 In reply to this Secretary Heydler wrote: "I have given your suggestions considerable thought and believe that if we could secure a combination of the men reaching first base through the pitcher's fault and the runs for which the pitcher is finally responsible, we would have something of value. The method you employ to arrive at these results looks perfectly sound, except I would not base the record of runs earned on number of ' games pitched; but rather. on the total times at bat of opponents. The great trouble now is the inaccuracy of the column showing the number of games pitched. A pitcher might be credited with I; ' playing in 45 games, yet when it is figured down he participated in no more than 20 complete games of nine innings. The constant change of pitchers has spoiled this feature for arriving at the pitcher's percentage of runs." It is quite probable that when the averages are made up for the season to come these methods will be adopted to prove their worth. The pitcher will have two totals charged against him. The first will be made up on the percentage of men who go to first base :iz ythrough his fault. This will be based on the base hits, bases on balls, hit by pitcher X;~ and sacrifice hits, divided by the times at bat, the times at bat to 't ~ be increased by the number of sacrifice hits made. This record will establish exactly to what extent each pitcher is responsible for men who reach first base. Another record, on the plan suggested by Secretary Heydler, of aIi earned runs divided by the times at bat will show the correct average of runs for which each pitcher is responsible. No run, of ~a3- course, is to be charged against a pitcher in which a fielding error prevents a put-out or after an opportunity has been lost to retire the side. The suggested combination of records will show the average number of men who were started on their way to a run by the pitcher and the average number of runs which resulted because of clean batting. This certainly is far superior to the present hap- hazard attempt to rank pitchers on the number of games lost and w1 won, wherein it has proved possible for a pitcher to win in a single ~t inning, which is decidedly unfair, when another pitcher must pitch through nine, or ten, or eleven hard-fought innings before he can I be credited with a victory. O O 3 O iWith each annual issue of the GUIDE it becomes necessary to call attention to the continued spread of the American game around the world. Within the last year the most wonderful development in the sport has taken place in Japan. Not only did the University of r' Chicago players cross the Pacific Ocean to play with Japanese teams, but we have American ball players going to Japan to teach the younger Japanese the technical features of the sport, which are a little difficult to understand because of the effort which has necessarily been made to learn Base Ball from the rules alone. It seems to be quite certain that a Japanese Base Ball nine will visit the United States in 1911. Its coming will be a novelty which will be attended with interest. Twenty-five years from now perhaps we shall have an interna- tional championship. It is quite within possibility. It may be that the championship shall embrace countries both to the East and the West of ours. The sport has paced along with such huge -: strides for the last five years that there is nothing impossible after Kj : = that which we have seen.

1. Evers: 2, Brown: 3, Cole: 4. Schulte. A GROUP OF CIICAGO NATIONALS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. Rules and Their Relation to Batting Expert Opinion as to the Presumable Effect of the Attack in Base Ball Were the Playing Code to be Modified With З, ~ a View to Handicapping the Efforts of the Pitchers. BY THE EDITOR OF THE GUIDE. Observation for more than a quarter of a century in profes- sional Base Ball has proved to the Editor of the GUIDE that it is a game which satisfies every American and which every American criticises. The statement may sound paradoxical. Possibly it is, but it is true. Collectively, the individuals of the American nation will arise and speak with one voice that Base Ball is the finest sport in the world, yet there is scarcely an American who does not believe that he could improve the game a little if he had his way. One of the greatest charms of Base Ball is this personal solici- tude of our young players and our veterans and theorists as to the details of the sport. It is not so intricate in itsg:methods that it requires careful and labored concentration to grasp with intelligence all that is embodied in the working out of its maneuvers, and the enthusiasm with which it fires the:spectator arouses a warmth of interest which makes his solicitude for the future of the sport as purely personal as if he were a player instead of an onlooker. It is the belief of the Editor of the GUIDE that more valuable information in regard to a great many proposed changes in rules may be had from Base Ball writers than from almost any other source which has to do with the sport. In the issue of the GUIDE for 1910 Base Ball critics were requested to give their opinions as to a better system for provid- ing for the records of the pitchers in major leagues. From every city of the major league circuits expert opinion was obtained, and the result has been that we are nearer a correct solution of the actual value of a pitcher to a Base Ball nine, so far as his w'ork on the field is concerned, than we ever have been. When the season of 1910 ended there was criticism here- and there as to the batting in the major leagues. There always has been criticism in regard to battting. It is quite probable that there always will be. A great many persons thought there should be more batting. Some were for handicapping the pitcher further to obtain it. Some were for increasing the chances that the batter had to meet the ball with safety. Others thought that the game was good as it was and wanted no changes to be made in the rules. The Editor of the GUIDE selected the principal suggestions which were offered and placed them in the form of a letter which was sent addressed to the leading Base Ball critics of the United States. This letter read as follows: New ideas advanced annually help to improve the National Game. Frequently it has been asserted that batting is too light. Would you be kind enough, that a general idea may be had as to sentiment throughout the major league circuits, to give your opinion briefly as to whether any or all of the changes proposed in the following would make Base -T? ~ Ball more attractive than it is at present?

1, Meyers; 2, Mathewson; 3, Murray: 4. Devore. A GROUP OF NEW YORK NATIONALS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 19 --nsteadc of calling the first two fouls strikes, call but one a strike, and permit the batter to foul the ball as often as he pleases after the first strike. 2--Limit the number of called balls to three. 3-Increase the number of strikes t,) four, but retain the present rule, which provides that the first two fouls shall be called strikes. Now and then a little too much haste in reading the letter produced the opinion that the Editor of the GUIDE favored all of the changes which were outlined, and a positive negative was the answer, instead of a personal opinion as to the value of the changes suggested. It is quite evident that it could hardly have been the personal opinion of any one man that all of the suggested changes be put into operation, inasmuch as they conflict with each other. What the request desired was that the critics would give their own ideas as to the effect that any of these changes might have, in order that the Base Ball controlling powers might obtain an opinion as to the possibilities which perhaps existed in any one of the three propositions. Answers have been received from major league critics repre- sentative of the great Base Ball centers of the United States and they are both interesting and instructive. It is apparent that the first suggestion of calling but one foul a strike and permitting the batter to foul as often as he pleases after the first strike has its advocates. It has been suggested more than once, when the subject of changes in the rules has been under discussion. It is also evident that there is not a small representation which is quite in favor of standing pat and permitting the game to continue under the conditions which prevail at present. The four-strike rule probably has no friends. Although it has been proposed as a radical departure from the present system, it meets with little or no favor from those who have had to do with the practical side of Base Ball and particularly from those who had opportunity to watch its working in other days. With much pleasure the Editor of the GUIDE submits to its readers the following symposium embracing the opinions of many of the leading critics of Base Ball. In the same breath the Editor takes the opportunity to thank those who have been kind enough to outline their ideas. The opinions read as follows: My opinion is that the batting and pitch- SID MERCER ing rules should be subject to no radical New York experiments. The batting is heavy enough New York now. Games where both sides hit heavily Globe and many runs are scored are not regarded as gu'eat contests and spectators tire of them. The art of base running should be encouraged. That, and-good fielding, contribute as much to the spectator's enjoyment as heavy hitting. Referring to the proposed changes my ideas are: 1-This would tend to delay the game, but would undoubtedly raise batting averages. It is doubtful whether it would increase free hitting much. 2-If the number of called balls should be limited to three, we would see few pitchers who would not walk at least six batsmen and be reached for ten or more hits. It would just about destroy the art of "working" or deceiving a batsman, as the pitcher would have too small a margin to draw upon. This would be entirely too radical a change.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 21 3-Increasing the strikes to four would give the batsman more of an advantage and the pitcher less of a handicap than by limiting the called balls. If this is done, however, the present foul strike rule should be enforced. It seems to me that the game is all right JAMES R. PRICE as it is now played and that there is enough batting. The foul strike rule should New York be retained and there should be no reduction Press in the number of balls. As for increasing the'number of strikes to four, that was tried WT In 1887, and did not appeal to the public. The rule for four strikes was rescinded after a season's trial. 0003 It is my opinion that the fans are seeing E. J. LANIGAN all the batting they care to and that the New York .- present rules are all right. The one change New York the fans might like is to have legislation Press that would prevent a pitcher from pur- posely passing a man. .How this could be done I don't know. The foul strike rule certainly should be retained. The present number of balls is all right. As for increasing the number of strikes to four, that has been done before and after a year's trial it was found that the enthusiasts did not care for the plan. 0 O E Every year the question comes up that va MARK ROTH batting is too light and something should NMAw YOr be done to increase the hitting. It is the New York old saying. They try to have more batting, Globe and then get pitchers to stop the batting, so what's the use. I think the one foul strike rule is a good one. Instead of calling the first two fouls strikes call but one a strike, and permit the batter to foul the ball as often as he pleases after the first strike. Otherwise I think the good old game should not be hampered. Leave it the way it is. ODD The timeworn cry is raised in Base Ball J. J. KARPF again. Let us have more batting. The ex- New- York -^perts no longer ask to have the pitcher New York moved back farther. They have discovered Evening Mail another way to increase the batting. Some want the batsman to have more leeway. Make the pitcher put four strikes over the plate or else increase the number of balls to five. And there are others who say that a pitcher should never be sent to the bat. Following this suggestion comes one that would do away with sacrifice bunting. We doubt if there would be much improvement by doing away with the sacrifice hit. But to give the batter more leeway in the number of strikes that a pitcher must put over the plate may bring satisfactory results. The fo:l strike rule is a hardship on the batter. Very often a classy hitter comes to the plate and takes a healthy swing at a good ball and it goes foul. Then comes another that cuts the plate and the same thing may happen. Then the batsman is in a hole and the pitcher has all the best of the battle of brains. A four-strike rule would in a large measure offset the foul strike rule. It would give the batsman an even break. It would never do to abolish the foul strike rule, as has been sug- gested. True, such a change would bring about better batting results, but we would be going back to long drawn out games and the tiresome sessions of a man at the bat fouling off good ones so that he could get a straight fast one to hammer out of the lot, or else tire out the pitcher so that he could get a base on balls-. There are any number of big league players that could stand at the plate and foul off good ones for ten minutes if necessary.

1, Wagner; 2, Clarke; 3, Gibson; 4, Phillippe. A GROUP OF PITTSBURG PLAYERS, 1910. k Conlon, Photo.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 26 ture, and the consequent lessening of the conventional sacrifice hit, which is an unpopular feature. 3-Increasing the number of strikes to four would be open to the same 4f^ objections as the first proposition and would not accomplish its purpose as well. I would favor it least of the three suggestions. 0 3 0 ' " 1-Either abolish the foul strike rule or -AJ A ^ , Ac'ADT let it alone entirely. Calling only one foul W. WG. WEART a strike would again bring into the game Philadelphia the very things the rule was designed to EveFwining Telegraph guard against-slower play and tricky bat- E vening Telegraph ting. I believe in retaining the foul strike rule just as it is. 2-Limiting the number of balls to three instead of four would be a good change. It should serve to increase batting by compelling the pitcher to put the ball over the plate more frequently, would give him less chance to waste balls and should benefit the base running, not only by putting more men on the sacks but also by preventing the pitcher from paying more attention to a runner on first base than he does to the batsman. 3-Increasing the number of strikes would help batting, but not so much as cutting down the number of called balls. New rules should be designed to quicken, not to increase, the length of a game. With four strikes the pitchers would delay matters considerably, whereas the three-ball rule would probably prove as effective as regards batting as a four-strike rule, and the three-ball rule has more points in its favor, such as stated in answer to Question No. 2. 0 O00 The difference in the applause accorded a W. H. VOLTZ bunt and a clean hard drive should convince any impartial mind as to what the average Philadelphia Base Ball patron likes best, and I have Gazette always been of the opinion that what the game needs very badly is more safe hitting, but not at the expense of the pitcher, whose position is trying enough. I think change No. 1, as outlined, would bring about the desired result. The number of balls and strikes should remain as they are. O o Why not leave the game as it is? Base S. 0. GRAULEY Ball is more popular than ever before, the pitchers have just enough mastery over the Philadelphia batters-the majority of the hitters any- Inquirer . way-to make games close and exciting, while there are surely enough ".300" hit- smiths to enliven the batting in both big organizations. In answer to Question No. 1, I would think to call only the first foul a strike, then permit the batter to foul off as many as he pleased without penalty, would lengthen the game, weaken the pitching department and cause no end of discussion among players and umpires about the inten- tional purpose of the batsman to delay the game. Question 2, about limiting the number of called balls to three, is a good idea, inasmuch as it would permit base runners to get on oftener and perhaps tone up base running, an art which seems to be going back- ward in these days of progress. Making it three-and-three would be just as good for the pitchers and it would be to the hitters, notwithstanding that the twirlers would be placed under a harder handicap working under this rule. This would necessarily mean that the pitchers would have to "groove" many a third strike in order to avoid having the third ball called upon them, which would perhaps mean a better display of hitting and offer more chances to the fielders. I favor three-and-three, and think that this scheme would do more to increase the batting without robbing the pitchers of their effectiveness or lengthening the game to any unusual extent.

L, Doolan; 2. Knabe: 3. Magee: 4, Dooin. A GROUP OF 1'IIILADEL'HIA NATIONALS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 27 Can hardly see where Suggestion 3, about increasing number of strikes to four, retaining the rule of calling the first two foul balls strikes, would do much toward increasing the hitting art. No doubt it would give bat- ters a better chance to get out of tight holes, placed there by pitchers' cunning, but it would tend to increase the length of the game when. each batter would have the privilege of playing out the string of four and four. My idea is that the public does not care to stay in a ball park longer than two hours for actual play, and to increase the present three-and-four rule to four-and-four would certainly tend to increase the- playing time. The three-and-three rule meets with my approval, for it would do more- to increase batting in my estimation than anything else. The batters, i could wait out two-and-two, then it would be either hit, walk or fan on. r ^the fifth ball pitched, providing of course that ball was not fouled off. .A That is the only rule which I can honestly indorse for the betterment of the game. 000 As regards the propositions agitated, the- F. C. R IC H T ER one increasing the number of strikes to four- may as well be dismissed. This was tried. Philadelphia once, proved very confusing and unpopular, Sporting Life was abandoned after one season's trial, and was never again broached until this moment. The "three-strikes-and-out" rule has grown up with the game, is as much a part of it in the public mind as "three out, side out" or the unevem number of "nine innings" for a full game, and, therefore, should not be- disturbed under any consideration or for even grave reasons-which cer- tainly have no bearing at this time. The "three-ball" proposition is a horse of another color-is, in fact, quite in line with the dominance of the odd numbers in the game. This. proposition has been frequently advanced by "Sporting Life" as a partial set-off to the ruinous effect of the foul strike rule upon batting; without eliciting more than academic discussion by the press writers, or passing- comment by the Joint Rules Committee. However, now that the propo- sition has reached the stage of respectful, and possibly successful, con- sideratiori we must confess to a feeling of doubt as to the advisability of its immediate adoption merely as an aid to batting; for the simple reason that the perfection of the official Base Ball through the invention of the- cork center instead of the solid rubber center in use up to 1910 has- materially changed conditions. Through the use of the perfected cork center ball the past season the batting was noticeably freer, harder and. more consistent than at any time within a decade, and that, too, without affecting the fielding in the slightest degree; as will be seen by reference to the official major league batting averages. Under the circumstances there is a possibility that the innovation of "three balls," coming so close upon the first year's apparently successful trial of the cork center ball, may push us to the other extreme and give us too much batting. There would be compensation for this, perhaps, in increased base stealing, owing to the restriction of the pitchers' oppor- tunity to "waste balls" with a runner on first base; but on the whole it seems to us that it would be only prudent to defer this proposed, change until another season's test has accurately determined the effect of the new cork center ball upon the batting. If the improvement of the- 1910 season is maintained or excelled in 1911 no change whatever in the- pitching rules will be necessary. ODD On the general proposition of legislating- GORDON MACKAY to increase batting in Base Ball, I do not QOR ON MAC. i K.A believe that it is possible to frame rules Philadelphia and regulations that will accomplish that Evening Times purpose. There will always be great bat- ters, medium batters and mediocre batters. It is in the nature of the game. The great batter cannot be hand- cuffed by legislation, the medium batter might be able to use it, but to-

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1. Mc(Ican: 2 M.itchell: '-. IIi(l itzell: 4. Pasrkcrt. A GROUP OF CINCINNATI PLAYERS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 31 deciding victory with a timely single, is narrated in all its ecstatic details by the colorado maduro Demosthenes. To introduce legislation that would strengthen the attack out of all proportion to the defense would give us 15 to 11 Base Ball every day. From a scientific, thinking sport, Base Ball would degenerate into an aimless clash of brute force. And what about the supremacy of the pitchers, when the managers of more than twelve big league clubs right to-day are bending their knees to heaven for more curving manna ? Suggestion No. 1 would do nothing more than defeat the purpose of the rulemakers when they framed the foul strike section. It was done to prevent left-handed batsmen from purposely fouling off and dragging the game past the two-hour mark. Suggestions Nos. 2 and 3 are dynamite that, if enacted, will blow Base Ball back to the days when the box scores were as big as they are in , ricket matches. Personally I see no reason for changing J. ED. GRILLO the rules for the purpose of increasing the WA sh. ,ing o batting. I do not believe that the public is Washington clamoring for more batting. One hears no Star complaints about Base Ball as it is played to-day unless it is when there is a heavy hitting game, which usually brings with it a lot of ragged fielding. Under such conditions only does one hear the game referred to as being unsatisfactory. If, however, it is found that the batting should be increased the better system for doing it, in my opinion, would be to limit the number of called balls to three, for this change would surely increase the hitting and at the same time would not prolong the game, a point which should always be kept in mind. 0O0 1-The foul strike rule, in my judgment, a JACK RYDER has done as much as any other one thing to Cincinnati increase the general interest in Base Ball. InCInnat It has reduced the time of game from Enquirer fifteen minutes to half an hour on the aver- age, and made the contest more lively and snappy. I think it would be a mistake to modify the present rule. 2L-Next to a batter fouling off ball after ball without penalty, the most tiresome thing in Base Ball is a constant procession of walkers to first base. Reducing the number of called balls would inevitably increase the number of walks. It might improve the chances of the base runners somewhat, by preventing the pitcher from pitching out, but the advantage would be more than offset by the increased number of bases on balls. The test of time has proven four balls to be the ideal number. 3-Giving each batter four strikes would lengthen the game, which is undesirable, and would probably result in the number of bases on balls being increased fully as much as the number of safe hits. The present system is eminently satisfactory to the fans who support the game and who are not clamoring for more batting. The assertion that batting is too light comes almost solely from Base Ball players and writers, not from the general public, which is perfectly satisfied with the game as it is. The only really practicable scheme to W. A. PH E LON increase batting without undue delay of the CinA. c inai game. in my opinion, is the reduction of Cincinnat called balls to three, retaining the foul Times-Star strike rule unaltered. Opponents of a three-ball rule maintain that it will result in too many passes. thus unduly delaying the battle. They made the same objection when the number was cut from five to four, but no remarkable increase in the number of passes resulted.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 33 Pitchers at the present time waste ball after ball in "pitching out" for base runners, or in wide floaters which they think will deceive green batsmen into reaching far out in vain swings. Half the passes now issued are the result of the batsman outguessing the pitcher and refusing to hit at balls that were thrown purposely wide. A reduction to three balls would mean that the pitcher would have to send them right across the plate and cut out the intentional wide ones. This would mean both better batting and better base running, while the increase in the number of free passes would be not over 5 to 10 per cent., even with the most unsteady pitchers. Three balls and three strikes is well M. TOWNSEND' worthy of a year's trial. There's a balance Cincinnati and a poise about three-and-three which Cinilna appeals to sportsmen. The "three-and-three" Commercial-Tribune rule would stimulate batting and base run- ning. The pitcher couldn't waste so many balls trying to catch base stealers or trying to inveigle batsmen into biting at bad balls. If the "three-and-three" amendment doesn't work well it can be erased at the end of one playing season. Base Ball rules aren't letter perfect. Experimenting improves the game. During the evolution of the "only sport," changes will suggest themselves from year to year and progressive Base Ball men must have the nerve to incor- porate them in the code. Had the ultra-conservatives had their way, the foul-strike rule would never have been adopted. No single alteration has done so much to popu- larize the people's sport. Like the foul strike rule, the three-balls-and- three-strikes rule will quicken the action of the game. The American people certainly do love action. The "four strike" and "two foul strike" suggestions lengthen the game, so cannot be seriously considered. Base Ball is the busy business man's sport and he wouldn't approve of a change which would drag out the diamond action ten or fifteen minutes. His wife won't let him get home to a cold supper. Call only the first foul a strike. This F. W. ROSTOCK would practically give the batsman an Cincinnati extra strike, without imposing a handicap on the pitcher. I think the four-ball rule Post is essential to the development of inside play. It gives the pitcher an opportunity to pitch away from as well as to the batsman. Unless this change is con- sidered I would suggest that the rules remain unchanged. Base Ball could be greatly improved, in H. G. SALSINGER my opinion, if the foul strike rule was HA, SDetroit entirely abolished. Let the batter foul as Detroi many as he likes. Count only the natural News strikes. Jim Hart, former chief of the Chicago team, was directly responsible for this change in batting rules. Hart's campaign was prompted by the work of Hughie Jennings, B-ll Dahlen, John J. McGraw, Billy Hamilton and Roy Thomas. These players had great success in fouling off balls. McGraw could cut them down third base territory four and five inches outside the foul line. One day in Chicago Da .ie_?1 fouled thirteen balls in succession, then walked. This performance - 4aid to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Howev---%. -there were only few players who had the ability to foul off bals i'--cutivelyl without placing themselves in danger of being retired. - i, rule was made to act on everybody where the parent of the rule sci,:g;! %- stop but a few. Batting has improved :`the then, at least many maintain it has, but there wold be few moe hn- 1j could be depended on to get down the

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 35 art of fouling off balls to as fine a system as McGraw, Jennings, Dahlen, Hamilton and Thomas had it. The return to the old plan would not mean much more time for playing a game and it would help batting wonderfully. It is true that calling but three balls would cut down the time, still in the average game it would rob the patron of considerable playing which he pays to see. Calling but one a strike and letting the batter foul off as many as he likes or increasing the number of strikes to four would not be with the same advantages that the old rule offered. The spectator would not get as much out of a game as he would if only natural strikes were considered. t 000 In commenting on any proposed changes HARRY N EILY in Base Ball rules two things are to be a aDetroit .p taken into consideration. First, the mag- .lDetrohitt a nates will not change the rules; second, the Times public does not care particularly about more hitting. 'In the first instance the magnates have found that Base Ball as con- ducted to-day is profitable and that it satisfies thousands of fans. That is enough for them. In the second, the public has come to appreciate good pitching and effective battery work to a degree that it is doubtful if any increase in batting would meet popular approval. This is essen- tially an age of hustle and any increase of batting would lengthen games. In the American League, particularly, officials and umpires have worked hard in recent years to cut down games to about 1 hour 45 minutes each. and a fast, snappy contest seems to hit the popular fancy best. In a game filled with hitting and much scoring the net results of any one run decrease in value and in the mass of events the average spectator is lost. Limiting the number of called balls to three certainly would materially increase the number of batsmen who become base runners, and if more scoring were desired that change would bring it about. I can see no particular advantage in increasing the number of strikes to four, as com- paratively few men strike out anyway. This change would give the batter some advantage he does not now enjoy, but the evil effects of pro- longing contests beyond the mean time now necessary would, in my opinion, more than offset the advantages to be gained. 000 BRICE HOSKINS I do not favor any of the proposed changes in the Base Ball rules, except that of limit- St. Louis Star ing the number of called balls to three. 000 offfp~З hnseThe American public wants to see hitting BRUCE DAN IE LS more than any one other thing at a Base Ball .DANEStrk- i t game. The present rules cut down hitting; Detroit therefore, I am in favor of the first change News suggested by you. By gaining two unnatural strikes on a batter, the pitcher is given an unfair advantage. The batter is robbed of an even break; his chances of getting a hit or hitting the ball into fair territory are therefore lessened. By cutting down the hitting in this way the game is robbed of many of the sensational fielding chances that were afforded under the old rules. No pitchers' battle is as interesting as one in which there is plenty of hitting and in which both sides are contributing their share of the bingles. Furthermore, there is only one psychological moment when a strike-out is appreciated by a Base Ball crowd, and that moment is * hen the bases are full.

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semi-pro team and win a championship. The pitchers must be handi- capped. Limit the number of called balls to three. 0 00 Personally I have no desire to see any RALPH STICKLE changes made in the present batting rules and I do not believe there is any feeling Cleveland among the fans in favor of a change. News Undoubtedly, any or all of the changes sug- gested in your letter of November 15 would increase the batting, but they would also increase the length of the game, something the fans do not want. The pitcher and fielders labor under enough handicaps as it is. A change in the batting rules would also establish a new standard by which to judge batters. Why not con- tinue to gauge the batsman by the standards that have prevailed for several years? If the batter is permitted to foul the ball ED. F. BANG as often as he pleases after the first strike Ceveland the games will be from ten to fifteen min- Cleveland utes longer. By limiting the number of News called balls to three, more men would walk to first, which would be a hardship on the pitcher. Besides, the layman fan hates a base on balls almost as much as a defeat. By increasing the number of strikes to four the time of play would be materially lengthened, and everybody knows that the games are too long now.

JL 1 urLIeAe JIU 111 n IIlltne lIae' cltles. p NO one can deny one of them the credit their due for their insistence in maintaining a place at the front. Observant analysis of opportunity will always tell the tale of defeat and correlatively will establish the reasons for victory. Hence, in looking over the outcome of the National League race in 1910, and marking the progress of time by the incidents of the campaign of the clubs, it is not difficult to gather in brief the principal points by which the Chicagos were again enabled to establish their claim to the championship. First -of all the early season success of the Pittsburg club was not of the standard which it should have been for Pittsburg to win a double championship. The team did not start as it needed to start if it expected to have reserve winnings upon which to fall when the contest naturally became harder. Had Pittsburg been leading by a comfortable margin on the Fourth of July the very fact of success to that period might have given the players such confidence that they would have worked with greater energy as the season waned, for it is a well-known fact that any combination of athletes, assuredly ahead, pulls together smoother and with less friction than the team which is worrying about what it has lost by weakness, or failed to gain at crucial moments. Chicago struck hard when opportunity offered and never harder or with more success than when playing the New York team. Indeed, the history of the campaign between Chicago and New - York throughout the season was one which involved Chicago's

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1, Herzog; 2, Sharpe; 3, Beck; 4, Collins. A GROUP OF BOSTQON NATIONALS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

did n6t follow it up throughout the season. Philadelphia, which had been picked as possible championship, material, did not come up to expectations. There was laxity on' the part of the players, in the Philadelphia club. Some of them did not behave themselves as men should who are part of an or-anization of the importance of the National League, and the president of the club finally saw fit to reprimand his p;l'-,_ers openly and punish them as he deemed proper. Cincinnati was a little disappointed at not4,, with a hi-her percentage, and perhaps would if the 6 lers of the team had not been such failures. It was a bitter ' development to Griffith that the men upon whom be had counted the most should have suffered for a great part of.-,the season with sore arms. Brooklyn did fairly well, considerin"g that Dahlen practically reconstructed the team, and Lake made much out of his little at Boston. No games were postponed on the opening day of the season. The winners on the first day were Brooklyn at Philadelphia, Bos- ton at home against New York, Cincinnati at home against Chi- cago, and Pittsburg at St. Louis against St. Louis. The sur- prises on the first day were Brooklyn's victory at Philadelphia and New York's defeat at Boston. The l-Tew York-Boston game. ran into eleven innings. Ames was not hit safely until the seventh, but a run in the eighth, one in the ninth and another in the eleventh gave Boston the victory. Philadelphia made but two hits against 'Rucker, and.did not score. The first half week in the race was distinctly in favor of Phila- delphia, Pittsburg, and Boston. The surprise was the poor showing made by the New York club, which did not seem to be able to get started after a season of fast work in the South. Boston won from New York twice and was the gainer. The second week of the championship race was more of a set- back for St. Louis then any other team in the league. The Cardinals seemed unable to get any results from their pitchers'. and as a team batted feebly. At the end of the week they were in the rear of the procession with only one game won out of seven. Philadelphia., playing against Boston and Brooklyn. had forged A6 steadily ahead and was- first in the race, with Pittsburg a close second. The New York club had begun to play better and had gone ahead of both Cincinnati and Boston, which at one time led the metropolitan team. On April 30, New York, by a succession of victories over the Eastern clubs, had fought its way to second place in the race, Pittsburg leading by a very narrow margin. St. Louis had picked up over Boston and Brooklyn, and was sixth, Brooklyn having dropped to the end of the procession, with Boston just half a game better off. in third Philadelphia, which had led part of the month, was place, New York having beaten the Quakers out of their position, and Chicago had fought into the first division, ousting Cincinnati from the place. On April 25 BrIdwell, Doyle, Merkle, Devlin, and Meyers made a triple play for the Giants on the Polo Grounds against Brooklyn.

A GROUP OF PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS, WORLD'S CHAM- PIONS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 49 New York played a hard-fought game against Philadelphia on April 28. It lasted thirteen innings, and the Giants won -with three singles and Doyle's double. At Boston, on April 28, Brooklyn made a triple play, the second of the season in the National League. Five of the Brooklyns participated in the play and it checked a rally by the Boston team. With the preliminary skirmishes of April completed and the usual number of postponed games to be faced, owing to the showers of the vernal season, the teams began to line up for the real work of the year, some feeling an added amount of confidence as their players began to liven up after the relaxation which usually follows the first severe course of training. On the first day of May New York slipped into the lead in the race. It was true that they were not to hold the position long, yet had the Pittsburg and the Chicagos been more observant of the situation they might have noted at that moment that the New Yorks were not a team with which to trifle. Chicago was struggling on, doing its best to overcome a severe handicap of bad weather-and bad Base Ball-and showed so little promise that some of the more optimistic critics in other Western cities than Chicago were inclined to believe that the once champions were too weak to be considered pennant factors and began to count them out. It was decidedly too premature, as was subsequently proved. St. Louis was making a better showing, and although success was not to be permanent, the St. Louis players did so well that they swung the Base Ball public in their city strongly in support of their claims to a place in the race. Philadelphia played capitally. In fact the Philadelphia club played better than it did during almost any brief period of the season. With fair success abroad the team, under its new man- ager, pushed its way so cleverly up the ladder that on May 15 it was tied with Pittsburg for first place, each team having twelve games won and eight lost. It was the crowning success of Philadelphia for the year, and it came much too early. If only it had been in the latter part of the season there is no telling as to what heights of rapture Philadelphia Base Ball enthusiasts might have ascended with two teams in the major leagues leading in the struggles for a pennant. It was in the early part of the month of May that the Pitts- burgs played in something of their needed form. Against Chicago they were not always successful, but they were so much better than the Chicago players that they were one of the factors ~ . which aided in keeping the Chicagos in the second division. With the end of the series between West against West and East against East began a change in the aspect of the percentage table. The New Yorks, a successful nine against Brooklyn and Philadelphia, had advanced finely. Their last game in their own city, played on a Saturday afternoon, was a victory. They left that night to play their first Western series in Chicago. It had been expected that Chicago, which had been making but an ordinary defense against Pittsburg, would be beaten badly by New York. Exactly the contrary was the result. In the first series of the New York players against their old rivals, the Eastern team lost three out of four games, and lost, too, because their pitchers were being batted hard. That was the beginning of the return to life of the Chicago team. From Chicago New York went to St. Louis and lost four games to the St. Louis team. It was something that had not happened since New York and St. Louis had been playing in the same

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 51 league. In fact, it had been so long since St. Louis had scored a victory over New York in its own city that the success of the home team was made the theme of column after column of praise in the local newspapers. Among those who were beaten in this memorable series was Mathewson, who pitched poorly. Later he had his revenge, and plenty of it. The start which had been made by the Chicagos was what they needed to bend to their work with renewed energy, and from the time in which they faced New York for the first series of the year they began to play better ball. The result was that they were in the lead in the race on the first day of June, after their case had been diagnosed as hopeless by more than one of the Base Ball critics. Strangely enough the New York team, in spite of the great set- back which it had encountered in the series in Chicago and St. Louis, picked up on the latter part of the Western trip, and against its Eastern adversaries, so that on June 1 New York was second in the race, and only 25 points behind Chicago. Pittsburg had dropped to third place. That was ominous, and the Pittsburg enthusiasts began to urge that the team must win more games if it expected to be a winner for two years in succes- sion. As June dawned the Giants were just completing a spurt. On the first day of the month they won their eighth successive game. They began to threaten Chicago again and had passed Pittsburg. While there was no boastful air about the New York enthusiasts, they hoped against hope that the team had started a succession of victories which would place them in the lead. At this stage the Philadelphia club was made a target for public criticisms by the pointed rebuke of its president to some of his players, whom he publicly accused of not working at their best. He fined them heavily and insisted that their relapses from perfect training condition were responsible for the bad showing which Philadelphia was making after a good start. The New York players followed their eighth consecutive victory with a ninth and then lost to Cincinnati. It was not a very serious setback, except it made it more difficult for the New Yorks to catch the Chicagos, who, now that they had gained the lead, played with energy to hold it. On the fifteenth day of June, Cole, pitcher for Chicago, lost his first game of the year. He had been doing brave work for his team. So brave indeed, that it is quite probable the Chicagos might not have won the championship without him. When the middle of the month had arrived the positions of the clubs in the race were virtually the same, with the exception of Pittsburg. The champions had dropped below Cincinnati and were fourth in the contest. At the end of the month, and with the beginning of July in sight, there was little difference in the relative distances between the leaders, so far as percentage was concerned, and no difference in position, except that Pittsburg had pulled back into third place and Cincinnati was again fourth. On June 30 the championship pennant was raised in Pittsburg. Not only was it a pennant, emblematic of the championship of the league, but it was a token that the Pittsburgs were world's champions. When it floated to the breeze there were some pessi- mistic Pittsburg enthusiasts who remarked that it was the last pennant which Pittsburg would see for another term of years. To the extent of one year at least the prophesy was true. The first two weeks of July were uneventful. It is true that some rather odd games were played. For instance, the New York

1, Cree; 2, Daniels; 3, Sweeney; 4, Chase. A GROUP OF NEW YORK AMERICANS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 53 club won a peculiar game from Boston. After going for eight innings with but one hit, Snodgrass singled, Doyle tripled and Becker hit for a home run in the ninth inning, tieing the score for the New York players, and in the fourteenth inning, with a fusilade of hits, the New Yorks made five runs and won. Neither Chicago, Pittsburg nor New York were playing sensa- tional ball. All three were going at their best paces, quite well extended, and doing the best that they could, but not one of the three was capable of making a spurt which would either put Chicago so far in the lead that it could not be overtaken, or make it possible for Pittsburg or New York to overtake the leaders and pass them. Perhaps it is well to insert a parenthetical clause at this point calling attention to the fact that on or about July 14 the New Yorks did have a chance, by making a clean sweep against the Chicagos in a series which was played between the clubs on the Chicago grounds, of taking the lead, but although New York began well in a loosely played game, which was one of the freest hitting contests of the year, the players could not wrest the lead from their adversaries at a moment which might have turned all the trend of battle for the time being. After leaving Chicago the New Yorks were only moderately successful at the first stop, Pittsburg, and annoyed by the unwill- ingness of Raymond, a (pitcher from whom much had been expected to keep in good form, John J. McGraw finally suspended him indefinitely on July 22. Raymond's suspension was probably responsible for bringing more rapidly to the front the work of Crandall, who began to be one of the most successful of the New York pitchers. In Chicago Chance, manager of the team, was beginning to obtain better results from some of his veteran pitchers. Their inability to play as well as they had in the past had bothered him at the start of the season, but they were up to their best standard about the middle of July, and from that time until the end of the month Chicago added success after success until the team had quite run away from New York. At the end of July, instead of the difference in percentage being about twenty-five points, as it had been for a long succession of weeks, the Chicagos led New York, which was in second place, by 77 points, and experienced Base Ball men began to reason with justification that the result of the National League race was well in sight unless the Chicago club should happen to be crippled between that time and the end of the Base Ball year. So it proved to be. This advantage, which had largely been gained on the home ground of the former champions, never was relinquished to the end of the season, nor was there any time in which Chicago was in any danger of losing the pennant, except by injury to three or four players, or by a slump which would be without equal in the history of Base Ball. For that reason the story of Chicago's part in the race ends with the end of the month of July. Not that the club was not compelled to play as best it knew how until the end of the season, for it would be possible to lose the championship after it seemed to have been won, but by continuing the pace with which it was traveling it simply made it impossible for either New York or Pittsburg to overtake it. By the middle of September the Chicagos were in the lead by 100 points, yet there were so many postponed games to be played, particularly by the New York team, that the Western players could not be hailed as real championship winners in spite of the fact that it was quite evident they had the pennant won.

SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 5i Because of this unusual excess of postponed games it was not until October 2 that the Chicagos had .'the pennant firmly in their grasp. They beat Cincinnati on, -that date and there was no longer any doubt as to where the flag would fly in 1911. While Chicago had found it only necessary to continue its aver- age of victories the New York and Pittsburg teams were having a pretty fight on their hands for second place in the race. After the New York players had visited St. Louis in' July and until the latter part of August they fell behind. .They did not play up to their own standard. As a matter of fact they were the poorest winning team away from home that McGraw had ever had under his management as a New York leader. Poor pitching was partly responsible for it, and it so happened that two or three of the most reliable men of the team were unfortunate enough to be taken ill while away from home, and were quite without worth to the club. Mathewson was ill during one of the most important series, and Wiltse was hit a severe blow on the arm during one of the Pittsburg.games which affected his work for the remainder of the year. By the end of August Pittsburg had overtaken the New York club and passed it. Pittsburg's lead was small, only seventeen percentage points, but it was enough to worry the New York players, who were eager to finish behind Chicago. As late as the middle of September the NeW. York team had not been able to overtake Pittsburg and oust it from' second place, but the New York players had reduced Pittsburg's lead to nine points, instead of seventeen, and it began to look as if New York's ambition were about to be realized. At this period of the race the New Yorks were -scheduled for a long season of postponed games on their own grounds. Among other opponents they had the Pittsburg club for six games in succession. New York had the advantage in the series and began to draw away from the 1909 champions. It was not until October 6 that the New York players were posi- tively in second place, Pittsburg hanging grimly -.'n, determined, if possible, to be second, even though the championship was lost. It was hardly to be classed as the most sensational race in the history of the National League, for that beautiful three- cornered fight between Chicago, New York and Piftsburg in 1908 will always be accepted as the criterion of compettition in a major organization. . . On the other hand, it can be described as a .race for the championship in which persistent effort won.. ;IJf-, the Chicago players, after their very bad start, and after the rather poor showing which had been made by some of themn in .1909, had stopped trying at the end of June, they would not have been winners of the championship in October. That the Pittsburg team was too much satisfied with itself and the victim of over-confidence is certain. One -or two of the younger players of the team, perhaps more, had appraised their personal value too highly. Possibly they' had not meant to be egotistical, but there was evidence that they lived in daily expecta- tion of seeing Pittsburg leap to the front and beat both New York and Chicago. They slept during the "months of May and June, when they should have been hardest at work, and when they awakened they found that Chicago was so far ahead of them that their last chance to win out was gone. Then the younger players, who were of opinion that any time they buckled down to work they could easily win, discovered that it really made little difference whether they buckled down to work or not. Their knack of play- ing winning ball had been lost.

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umcinnat ...... 60 59 504 Boston .....43 78 .355 FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 15. Chicago ............ 87 40 .685 Cincinnati .......... 67 68 .496 Pittsburg .......... 78 55 .586 St. Louis ........... 53 75 .414 New York ............ 75 55 .577 Brooklyn ............ 52 79 .397 Philadelphia ...... 68 65 .511 Boston .............. 45 88 .338 FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 30. Chicago ............. 94.. 47 .667 Cincinhati .......... 73 75 .493 New York ......... 86 59 .593 St. Louis ........... 59 83 .415 Pittsburg ........... 83 62 .572 Brooklyn .......... 60 86 .411 Philadelphia ,........ 74 71 -.510 Boston ............... 50 96 .342 FINAL STANDING NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE. Clubs. Chic. N.Y. Pitts. Phila. Cm. Bkln. St.L. Bos. Won. P.C. Chicago .........,.. 14 12 14 16 16 15 17 104 .676 New York....... 8 .. 12 15 14 14 12 16 91 Pittsburg......... 10 10 11 12 12 17 14 86 .512 Philadelphia..... 8 7 11 12 13 10 17 78 .510 Cincinnati..... 6 8 10 10 .. 15 12 14 75 .487 Brooklyn.. 8 10 9 7 12 12 64 .416 St. Louis ......... 7 10 4 12 10 10 .. 10 63 .412 Boston............ 5 6 8- 4 8 10 12 53 -.346 Lost.......... 50 63 67 75 79 90 90 100 614

I, Hooper; ', Wagner; 3, Speaker; 4, Stahl. A GROUP OF BOSTON AMERICANS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

- - '' ____ - _ - -_ _ ___ 1. ,_3 ~~l y oul r p re~~sen w~ ..to its readers a portrait gallery which comprises the faces of all of the major league players who were prominent in the contests of 1910. In conjunction with this is a brief narration of the principal causes for victory or defeat which had immediate bearing on the struggle which was made by each major league team. In concise form are given such records as are of immediate value to every student of Base Ball, including the club's percentage of victories and defeats and the records which were made by those pitchers upon whom the burden of carrying the season's task fell hardest. The portraits and the individual club stories on the succeeding pages will be found of unsual value in the future when those who were witnesses of the two great races for the champi'onships of the two major leagues are in search of historical information for the purposes of reference. The story of the Athletics, champions of the world and cham. pions of the American League, is one of the most interesting In the annals of professional Base Ball. This organization, steadily built up from material which had been discovered by its capable manager, Connie Mack, in the various minor leagues of the United States, unquestionably was one of the surprises of Base Ball his- tory and the return to expert form which was made by Bender and the sensational work of Collins at second base will always be accorded among the great performances of professional sport. There is a capital pictorial presentation of the members of the Chicago National League club, who, after a year's interim' in which they had been beaten by the Pittsburgs for the penznant, regained races for the National League championship. Those who had asserted with conviction that the famous infleld made up of Stein- feldt, Tinker, Evers and Chance had played its last effective game of Base Ball were forced to qualify their comment on the Chicago veterans when, in the middle of the season, those men, with all the fire and accuracy which had made them expert ball players in the past,~ swept everything before them and obtained such a lead closest rivals, to overtake them. Two other clubs of the major leagues were always conspicuous throughout the 1910 races for the pennant. These belonged to a;New York, each league having a successful combination. In the National team Merkle, Devore, Drucke, Meyers and Snod- grass advanced so rapidly in their calling that it was largely through the work of these younger players the Giants were able to makre their keen struggle for a place in the race. There was no Base Ball enthusiast during the season of 1910 who -did notf hear the name of Ford. The wonderful young pitcher of the New York American League club was the mainstay of the team and the inability of almost every Base Ball club in his own organi- zation to ba~t his curves successfully was one of the important factors of his club's success. The portraits on the followingae were taken by Paul Thompson, New York (copyrighted, 1910) ;C.M Conlon, New York; Pictoriatl News, New York; Van~eyen, Cleveland, and Homner, Boston.

who were most intimately concerned in its welfare. Miller, the second baseman whose grand work with the bat in 1909 had done so much to assist the Pittsburgs in capturing a pennant, fell far short of the mark which he had established for him- self in the year preceding. Illness was attributed to his lack of success, and on top of that Wagner, the sterling performer at shortstop, was not in the best of health for some part of the season. At times the team batted with the effectiveness which had earned it one champion- ship and followed this by a weak display of work with the bat which told heavily against its chances. The weakness in the pitch- ing department was quickly perceived by the manage- ment, which undertook to strengthen that portion of the game by securing pitcher White from Boston, who did excellent work some of the time, but toward the latter part of the season was bat- ted quite freely, in part due to a sore arm, of which he did not complain, and pluck- ily stuck to his work. Pittsburg did not develop any extraordinary young players, but at times Camp- bell had opportunity to prove his effectiveness as a batter and McKechnie worked well enough on the infield to demonstrate that he is bet- ter than the ordinary minor league player who is pressed into the major organizations.

PHILADELPHIA National League Won 78, lost 75, percentage .510. PITCHERS' RECORD. Won. Lost. Brennan .............. 2 0 McQuillan ......... 9 6 M oore ................. 22 15 Ewing ... ...... ...... 16 14 Foxein . ........... 5 5 Moren . ............ 13 14 Stack ............. 6 7 Schettler ............. 2 6 Scattering games were won and 1 st by ,ther pitchers and the record of Foxen includes the games with both Philadel- phia and Chicago. Perhaps no club in the National League had its "ups and downs" with more regu- larity than Philadelphia. Early in the season the play- ers were doing so well that at one time P'liladelphia was first in the race. Inflortunately for the Phil- adelphias, there seemed to be a disposition on the part of some of the players to take the matter of winning a pen- nant as somlething more of a joke than stern business reality. The team suffered in conselquence and dropped from its high estate to one of more lowly (position in the second division. It was a severe blow to Dooin. who was trying to make his- reputation as man- ager, but the courage of the young man was indomitable. and in spite of all the vexa- tions and trials which are

-~ tt- З ........ ....... 1 14 Burns ................. 8 12 Scattering games were won and lost by other pitchers. It is no difficult matter to account for a geat deal of the poor snowing which was made by the Cincinnati team from time to time. The pitchers were far from com- ing up to expectations. .At the beginning of the season Griffith seemed to be confi- dent that he had a pitching corps which would be effect- ive throughout the year. Unfortunately for him, one or two of his pitchers devel- oped sore arms. Fromme, from whom much had been anticipated, was incapaci- tated for the greater part of the summer. Indeed he was unable to do anything effect- ive until nearly the close of the year and by that time Cincinnati's chances to oc- cupy a prominent position in the race had gone glimmer- ing. Other pitchers of the Cin- cinnati club seemed to have great trouble to secure con- trol of the ball and Griffith was afraid to use them in the box. Occasionally he

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1, Wood; 2. Lewis; 3, Purtell; 4, Carrigan. A GROUP OF BOSTON AMERICANS, 1910. Conlon, Photo.

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: ~3.-ADING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 103 work ot -.Midling his team and then he had to begin at the bottom. ' v:X; was one reason why Manager Duffy did not win an Ame 'ic :- -ague pennant last season. It would have been av miracle if hie had. The White Sox started the training season' with moro h-m fifty players, a few of them veterans and the rest gathered r.mi' I. -lifornia to Maine. The task of sifting the wheat from the I --nd of merely introducing those players to each other was - 'r one in itself. The work of welding the mass of new matcri.i :o a cohesive whole could only be started and it was demcns-r~i.u early in the race that not enough major league timber had ; obtained to go around. In consequence a new lot of yo-ur;- b i-l was demanded and secured for the coming year which mu l> : -,-oted to another session of weeding and welding. To, have .i ; - . a team in one season such men as Harry Lord, Frank L:- :. ,;d Olmstead, Rollie Zeider and Charley Mullen spells success in itself, not to mention the other young men who have given promises which may be fulfilled in another year. James M'cAleer made a big hit in Washington with a team only slightly changed from that of the previous year. The addition of Elberfeld to the infield put ginger into the crew. Walter Johnson got a slow start in the spring but more than made up for it later on. His work alone was sufficient to keep the team well up in the second division for a greater part of the way and at one time it looked as if the tribe of McAleer actually meditated forcing some- one to make room for it in the first division. That was a novelty for Washington sufficient to cause the fans to warm up to the team in great shape and the warming was not seriously chilled by the slump at the finish which dropped the team back to seventh place. There never was much joy in St. Louis after the opening day of the season there. With a world of enthusiasm for the new man- ager, Jack O'Connor, a popular idol in the Mound City, the fans flocked to the opening game and were more deeply stirred by a victory for the Browns. For the next week it either rained or snowed in St. Louis, and not only chilled the ardor of the patrons but froze the arms of veterans and colts alike among the players. When Base Ball could be resumed the team left home shortly and slumped so hard that it never regained the public favor with which it started. Things went from bad to worse, with accident and sickness to help the downward course of the team, and it never had a chance to get out of last place. In the first fortnight or so of the championship battle the usual scramble occurred, but it required comparatively few days to sep- arate the contenders from the non-combatants. Detroit got away best of the lot because it was playing three of those second division teams in the early weeks of the race. It was noteworthy that by May 1 the league already was divided into sections which remained practically unchanged during the entire season. The four clubs in the second division stood exactly in the same positions on May 1 that they were to fill at the end of the race. At that time Boston also occupied the position in which it wound up and the three leading teams were the same as at the end but in different order. Detroit's lead did not last very long, for on May 2 the Athletics took it away from the three times champions who never again during the season appeared on the top round. For more than a month Philadelphia enjoyed undisputed possession of the front seat on the band wagon, while Detroit dropped back to third and then to fourth place during the first invasion of the east by the west. New York became the contending club during May and made the second best showing on the month's work, Philadelphia's being best. Detroit did better than Boston and Washington was fifth in the matter of games won and lost. Early in the month

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 106 Cleveland made a spurt which carried it into the first division, displacing Boston for a few days, but by the time the McGuires got well into the east they were back on their permanent job of captaining the second division. The White Sox and Browns made a poor showing for the month. The month of June was an exciting period in the whole league. The early weeks were marked by a warm scrap between the Ath- letics and Highlanders for the lead. New York gained first place on June 5, relegating Philadelphia to second. Detroit then was third and Boston fourth. For eight days in succession New York led, then on the 13th was compelled to give way to the coming champions, but for two days only. June 15 saw the Highlanders in front of the procession once more. The next few days were crucial. June 16 put the Athletics ahead and they stuck there during the 17th and 18th. The 19th brought the Highlanders to the fore again and they managed to hang on through the 20th. But June 21, the longest day of the year, also was the saddest and gladdest. It marked the last day of joy for the New Yorkers and the beginning of a continuous feast of delight for Philadel- phians who never again were obliged to see their Athletics below first place. The Mackmen set the pace from that day to the end of the world's series. June also was remarkable for the brace taken by the western teams. It furnished the unusual spectacle of six teams winning half or more than half their games during the month and all traveling along at practically the same gait. Detroit and Chicago won the largest number of games, fifteen apiece. Philadelphia won fourteen and New York and Boston thirteen each. July saw a new pennant contender begin to dawn on the horizon In the uniforms of the Red Sox. Boston made the best showing for this month and gained ground fast enough to engage in a hand to hand tussle with New York for second place. But the Athletics went along at an even gait and held the lead without dispute or worry all through the month. By the end of the period Boston was pretty well established in second position and was beginning to be considered dangerous in the land of the Quakers. The second division teams, after taking a brace in June, slumped back, making the month all in favor of the first division clubs. Boston made its strongest pennant bid early in August, but that month also saw the Athletics do a lot of playing on their own account. Connie Mack's men not only retained their lead, but led the league by a wide margin on games won during August. Boston retained second place from the beginning of the month until well into September, but apparently grew discouraged by Phila- delphia's gait and slumped toward the end. 4 Philadelphia continued to do the best work in September and kept right on drawing away from the rest. There was no doubt about the winner of the pennant after Labor Day, barring the proverbial railroad wreck, the Athletics putting their spikes into 'two out of every three games they played with great regularity. In this way Philadelphia absolutely cinched the pennant on Sep- tember 20, but there was left a merry battle for second honors with New York, Boston and Detroit as contenders. That fight was so warm it lasted right up to the last week of the season. Cleve- land's work ranked next to Philadelphia's during the month. The new blood infused into the team was beginning to be felt, and it enabled Cleveland to cinch fifth place beyond dispute before the month ended. The White Sox, also replenished with new men of ambition and entrenched on their own grounds, made a good showing for the month. Boston, shot to pieces by dissension, slumped woefully. In the final week New York was able to snatch second place

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ZPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 100 FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 31. Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. Philadelphia ........ 60 30 .667 Cleveland ............ 41 45 .477 Boston .............. 55 37 .598 Washington ........ 38 53 .418 New York .......... 53 37': .589 Chicago .............. 35 55 .389 Detroit .............. 52 41 .559 St. Louis ........... 25 61 .291 j . FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 15. * Philadelphia ........ 72 33 .686 Cleveland ........... 48 57 .451 Boston .............. 62 46 .574 Washington ........ 47 61 .435 Detroit .............. 59 48 .551 Chicago ............. 44 61 .419 New York ......... 59 49 .540 $t. Louis ........... 34 70 .327 A- f -FOR THE WEEK EtNDING AUGUST 31. - Philadelphia ........ 82 37 .689. Washington ......... 56 67 .455 Boston .............. 72 49 .595 Cleveland ........... 51 68 .429 New York .......... 69 51 .575 Chicago ............. 46 71 .393 Detroit .............. 67 54 .554 St. Louis ........... 36 82 .305 FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 15. Philadelphia ........ 62 40 .697 Cleveland ........... 60 74 .448 , * New York .......... 77 56 .579 Washington ........ 59 76 .437 Boston .............. 76 57 .571 Chicago ............. 53 80 .398 Detroit ............. 77 58 .570 St. Louis ........... 41 94 .304 FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 30. Philadelphia ........ 99 46 .683 Cleveland ........... 67 77 .465 New York .......... 82 62 .569 Washington ........ 64 82 .438 Detroit .............. 82 64 .562 Chicago ............. 64 83 .435 Boston .............. 80 66 .548 St. Louis ........... 45 103 .304 FINAL STANDING OF AMERICAN LEAGUE. Clubs. Ath. N.Y. Det. Bos. Clev. Chi. Wash. St.L. Won. P.C. Athletics . ...... . 12 13 19 14 14 14 17 102 .680 New York.......... 9 .. 9 13 13 13 15 16 88 .583 Detroit............. 9 13 .. 10 13 13 13 15 86 .558 Boston.............. 4 9 12 . 14 10 16 16 81 .529 Cleveland........... 7 8 9 8 .. 12 9 18 71 .467 Chicago............. 8 8 9 12 10 .. 9 12 68 .444 Washington ........ 6 7 9 6 13 13 13 66 .437 St. Louts .......... 5 6 7 6 4 10 9 .. 47 .305 Lost .............. 48 63 68 72 81 85 85 107 609 * w -

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great ability of the opposing combination. In T-eparing for the struggle, Manager Mack, of the Athletics, did not overlook a point and his team went into the series trained to the minute. The Cubs did not appear to take the situation so seriously. Several of them admitted that they had underestimated the strength of their rivals, a blunder which they realized too late and one for which no excuse can be found. The American League champions had proven their ability by mowing down all opposition In their organization and creating a new record for the American League by being the first team in ten years to win more than 98 games. They had 102 victories to 49 defeats. Manager Mack permitted his players to relax after winning the American League championship, and then, after a proper period of rest, "hardened" them for the meeting with the Cubs. The latter apparently let down after they saw they had the National League's bunting captured and they took things easy up to the time that they faced the Athletics. The week before the World's Serifs was the crucial one. During September efforts were made to advance certain dates for cham- pionship games in the National League in order that the World's

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,vu-u ,Ae , L ll,,a;lu, alu ivuanager IvlacK nimself declared that ' the series with the All-Stars was the "salvation of the Athletics." The games between the Athletics and the All-Stars were played 'during the week before the World's Series, four taking place at Philadelphia and one at Washington. The All-Stars won the first four contests, but were shut out in the fifth. The members of the All-Stars, who played such an important part in deciding the World's Series, were: Manager James McAleer of Washington, Pitchers Walsh and White of Chicago and Johnson of Washington, Catchers Street of Washington and Sullivan of Chicago, First Baseman Stahl of Boston, Second Base- man Elberfeld of Washington, Shortstop McBride of Washington, Third Baseman Harry Lord of Chicago, and Outfielders Cobb of Detroit, Speaker of Boston, and Milan of Washington, with Schaeffer and Cunningham of Washington as substitutes. While the Athletics were "hardening" themselves for the blue ribbon event of the Base Ball world, the Cubs were apparently taking it easy. They had some off days and they played a few games with St. Louis. Two weeks before the World's Series started the Cubs met with a severe loss when Second Baseman Evers had his leg broken sliding to the home plate in a game at Cincinnati. It was expected that Zimmerman would fill in at this position admirably during the big games, owing to his ability as a batsman, but the series showed that Evers' place could not be filled so easily. The Cubs undoubt- edly were weakened by the absence of Evers when they faced the Athletics. To 'offset this, the American League Champions also felt the absence of Oldring, their second best player in all-around ability, and Manager Mack was forced to use in four of the games one of his youngsters, Strunk, who had been out of the game during nearly all of the season owing to an injured knee. The batting of the American League team was terrific, and in the five games 20 of their 56 hits were for extra bases, the long drives including eighteen two-baggers, one three-bagger and one home run. Against this the Cubs made only 35 safe hits, eleven of which were two-baggers and one a three-bagger, their hits reaching a total of 48 bases as against 79 bases for the Athletics. In no instance was a player of either team prevented from get- ting a long drive by the crowd on the field. Indeed, the total bases were really kept down by the ground rules. At Chicago they were rather absurd and on some hits, which did not go among the spectators, the players were not permitted to make more than two bases. It was a curious condition that did not permit a bats- man to get all the bases he could make on a drive into clear territory. An unfortunate incident was the ruling out of the first game at Chicago of Manager Chance, who protested against allowing Murphy a home run on a drive against a sign over the right-field bleachers. In team batting the Athletics outbatted their rivals by nearly fifty per cent., the figures being .317 to .221, while in fielding the Cubs had a slight advantage by .954 to .947.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE . 11 catching of Bender's delivery was perfect, and Schulte, who twice tried to steal second base, was each time thrown out, Collins handling the throws. Only one base was stolen by a Philadel- phian, this being credited to Murphy, but Overall's pitch was so poor that Kling had no opportunity to throw. Bender's pitching was marvelous, and for eight innings Chicago had only twenty-four men at bat. During that time Schulte was the only National Leaguer to get on the bases. He did so in the first inning on a single to left field and in the fourth inning on a base on balls, but each time he was thrown out trying to steal second base. Scoring by the Athletics began in the second inning. Baker started the overthrow of Overall by opening with a two-bagger to left field, the ball rolling into the crowd, and Davis sacrificed. Murphy, who was the slugging hero of the series, made his first appearance at bat and scored Baker with a single to left field. Murphy surprised the Cubs and the spectators by stealing second base, no effort being made to head him off, as Overall's pitch was high and to the left of the plate. Barry's out advanced Murphy to third base and Overall showed still further signs of weakening by giving Thomas a base on balls. Bender sent a very fast, ugly bounding grounder to the right of Zimmerman, who could not hold the ball, and Murphy scored. Strunk ended the session with a fly, which Sheckard gathered in. The third inning ended Overall for the game, and he never appeared on the scene again during the series. Lord opened the attack this time. In his first time at bat, Lord had given Hofman a hard chance, but this time the batter sent a two-bagger to center field. Lord took third on Collins' sacrifice and scored on Baker's single. As was the case in the second inning, Baker's hit went to left field, completely surprising the Cubs, who had been expecting him to pull his drives to right field. McIntire took up the pitching burden for the Cubs in the fourth inning and for four innings not a hit was made off him, while he gave only two bases on balls. With two men out in the eighth inning, Collins received a base on balls, and in his efforts to catch Eddie off first base, McIntire threw wild, Collins taking third base. Then came the only hit made off McIntire, and it was the longest of the series. Baker drove the ball within a foot of the top of the right field fence, scoring Collins and netting himself a two-bagger. An idea of the length of this hit by Baker can be gathered from the fact that in the two years that Shibe Park has been in existence only two men have been able to put the ball over * the right field fence, Baker doing so four times and Cree of New York once. For eight innings the Athletics' work had been nearly perfect in every respect, but a break came in the ninth. Tinker was the first man to face the apparently invincible Bender. Thomas ran back towards the grand stand and muffed Tinker's foul. Tinker then hit to center field for a single, it being the second safety of the game off the Indian twirler. Strunk per- mitted the ball to get away from him and Tinker had the dis- tinction of being the first National Leaguer to reach second base. Kling followed with a single to center field, scoring Tinker. Beaumont, who batted for McIntire, was thrown out by Collins, and Sheckard struck out. Schulte was given a base on balls, but the game ended when Hofman forced Kling at third base by a grounder to Baker. Baker was the star of the day in the field and at bat, he making as many hits-three-as the entire Chicago team, and

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 126 The official score: SECOND GAME. f ATHLETICS. CHICAGO. ' AB.R.H.P.A.E. Strunk, c. f .......... 5 1 2 4 0 0 Sheckard, 1. f ...... 1 1 0 1 1 Lord, 1. f ............. 5 1 1 0 0 Schulte, r. f ..........3 1 0 0 0 0 Collins, 2b ........... 4 2 3 4 6 0 Hofman, c. f......... 2 1 1 1 0 0 Baker, 3b ........... 4 1 1 1 0 Chance, lb .......5 0 214 0 0 Davis, lb . .......... 5 1 2 7 0 2 Zimmerman, 2b 3 0 1 1 2 0 Murphy, r. f .........4 1 1 1 1 0 Steinfeldt, 3b. 5 0 1 0 2 2 lBarry, ss . ........... 301310 1310Tinker, ss ........... 4 0 2 3 4 0 Thomas, c ...........3 2 2 6 1 0 Kling, c ........ 4 0 5 2 0 Coombs, p ...........4 0 1 0 1 2 Brown, p. 3 0 0 0 2 0 *Beaumont .......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Richie, p ...........0 0 0 0 0 0 A, Totals .............37 9142711 4 Totals ............... 31 3 8 2413 3 * Batted for Brown in eighth inning. Athletics ............................. 0 0 2 0 1 0 6 0 x-9 Chicago .............................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 1-3 Left on bases-Chicago 14, Athletics 9. Two-base hits-Collins 2, Davis Murphy, Strunk, Tinker, Zimmerman, Sheckard, Steinfeldt. Sacrifice hits -Schulte 2, Sheckard, Barry. Sacrifice fly-Zimmerman. Stolen bases- Collins 2. Struck out-By Coombs, Steinfeldt, Chance, Kling, Brown, Beau- mont; total 5. By Brown, Strunk 3, Coombs 2, Barry 1; total 6. Bases on balls-Off Coombs, Sheckard 3, Hofman 3, Zimmerman, Kling, Stein- feldt; total 9. Off Brown-Murphy, Baker, Thomas, Collins; total 4. Pitchers' record-Off Brown in 7 innings, 13 hits, 9 runs in 33 times at bat. Off Richie in 1 inning, 1 hit, 0 runs in 4 times at bat. Double plays -Collins, Davis 2; Murphy, Thomas; Tinker, Chance. First on errors- Chicago 4. Fumbles and missed grounders-Coombs 2, Steinfeldt. Muffed fly ball-Sheckard. Dropped thrown ball-Davis 2, Steinfeldt. Umpire-- Rigler. Assistant umpire-Sheridan. Patrol umpires-O'Day and Con- nolly. Time of game-2.25. Official scorers-Richter and Spink. Weather- Clear and warm. Official attendance-24,597. 0 D 0 The teams, members of the National THIRD GAME Commission and newspaper writers left At Chicago, October 20 Philadelphia on the evening of October At C AЛicago, October 0 18, the National Commission's special Athletics 12, Chicago 5 running in two sections, and the trains reaching Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Manager Mack astonished even veteran followers of the game by sending Coombs in to pitch the first contest at Chicago, for the i ~ "Iron Man from Maine" had had only one day's rest, and that wag largely spent in traveling from Philadelphia to Chicago. Coombs, after starting poorly, settled down and pitched far more effectively than he did two days before. A Manager Chance decided upon his third veteran twirler, Reul- bach, who did not last as long as Overall did in the opening engagement, while McIntire, whose pitching had been so sensational on Monday, lasted only part of an inning, during which his curves were pounded hard. The Athletics' hitting during this game set a new mark for a World's Series event. They hammered the ball for fifteen hits, which included four two-baggers and a home run, giving them a total of 22 bases as against 14 hits for 19 bases on Tuesday. The Athletics opened the game by scoring a run, Strunk making the circuit on a pass, Lord's sacrifice and Baker's single, the latter being thrown out, Kling to Tinker, when he tried to steal second base. Coombs' first inning charm was working, for the Cubs also

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 131 game, according to the way the work of the pitchers is sized up in cold figures, but he twirled in grand style and he was taken off the rubber to permit a "pinch" hitter to bat rather than owing to any shortcomings on his part. Bender pitched for the Athletics. He was not so effective as he was on the opening occasion, but his excellent work kept his opponents on the short end of the score until the ninth inning. Then it was a case of do. or die for Chicago. They went in to bat out a victory and they did so by some fine hitting in the ninth and tenth innings, which drove the smallest crowd of the week, 19,150 spectators, into a frenzy of delight. The Cubs' victory Was well earned and they rallied just in time to prevent Phila- delphia from winning the series by four straight victories. Sheckard made a clean steal of second base, which was the best i bit of base-running done by a Chicago player up to that point. He scored one run himself and drove in the winning run with a single to center field and his three put-outs were made on difficult chances. While the Athletics were charged with three errors, none of them figured in the run-getting. Baker again shone a little more brilliantly than his team-mates. He led in the day's batting with three hits, one of which was a drive to left-center field on which he should have had three bases, but the ground rules held the hit down to a two-bagger, although no outsider touched the ball. His fielding was also of a high order, one of his plays in particular being as sensational as any during the series. In the ninth inning, with the score a tie, Chance on third base and two out, Baker ran over to one of the boxes, gauged a foul fly accurately, reached over into the box and captured the ball just as it was about to land on a spectator's head. Conditions which had prevailed during the week were largely reversed. The Cubs had only four men left on the bases, while the White Elephants had ten of their men stranded. Chicago took the lead in the opening inning. Sheckard drew a base on balls and stole second base while Schulte was striking out. Hofman's single scored Sheckard. Baker got Chance's grounder and threw to second base, forcing out Hofman. Collins claimed that Hofman interfered with him when he started to ,throw to first base, and as Umpire Rigler allowed the claim of interference, Chance was also called out. Baker was the only Philadelphian to get on the bases in the first two innings. and his attempt to steal second base resulted disastrously, as he was thrown out by Archer, Tinker making the play at the bag. Two men were out in Philadelphia'sn half of the third inning when Bender received a base on balls, and the "Chief" scored the tying run when Strunk hit to left-center for three bases. Strunk, how- ever, over-slid third base and was called out.- The Athletics took the lead in the fourth inning. After Lord struck out, Collins singled and scored on Baker's drive to deep left-center field, the latter being allowed only two bases on the hit. Cole struck out Davis, and Murphy sent Baker across the plate with a two-bagger to left field. The Cubs got a run in their half of this inning. Schulte singled, took third on Hofman's single and scored on Chance's single. Zimmerman sent a grounder straight at Bender, whe threw to Baker, forcing cut Hofman, and Baker relayed the ball to Davis in time to double up the batsman. In the next four innings Chicago got only one runner as far as second base and only one hit, a single by Zimmerman. The Athletics, on the other hand, had seven men left on the circuit in these four innings, Cole being given excellent support by his team mates. As Kling batted for Cole in the eighth inning, Brown went in to

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ptSch in the ninth session, a two-bagger by Davis being the only hit made off Mordecai while he was on the rubber. The Cubs touched off the fireworks in the ninth inning. With :he zcore 3 to 2 in Philadelphia's favor, it looked like a clean sweep for the American Leaguers when Chicago went to bat. Schulte tried to "kill" the ball and he succeeded in driving it into the left-center field bleachers for a two-bagger. Hofman sacri- ficed. Chance tied the score by sending Schulte home with a three-base drive over Strunk's head. Pandemonium reigned within the park. Zimmerman tried to win the game right there, but Collins ran far back of second base and gathered in Heine's high fly, and then came Baker's sensational capture of Steinfeldt's foul. With one out in the tenth, Archer hit to left field for two bases, and Brown's out sent him to third base. Sheckard drove a single to center field, Archer scored, and the Cubs had broken their string of defeats. The official score: FOURTH GAME. CHICAGO. ATHLETICS. AB.R.H.P.A.E. AB.R.H.P.A.E. ::, ;-- , < l 1. f. ........ 4 1 1 3 1 0 Strunk, c. f.......... 5 0 2 2 0 0 r f......... 4 2 2 2 0 0 Lord , 1. f............. 5 0 0 1 0 , :.s ce. f ......... 3 0 2 1 0 0 Collins, 2b. .......... 5 1 1 6 2 1 . lb ........... 4 0 210 2 0 Baker, 3b ...........4 1 3 3 4 1 ; . - : --nan, 2b ....4 01220 Davis, lb ............ 3 0 1 9 0 1 ~ -i -:lt, 3b .......4 0 0 2 4 0 Murphy, r. f .........4 0 2 1 0 0 i , ~s. . .......... 3 0 0 1 3 0 Barry, ss ...........4 0 0 2 1 2 -:- c ............ 4 1 1 8 3 0, Thomas, c ......... 4 0 1 5 4 0 I .............. 2 0 0 1 3 0 Bender, p ...........3 1 0 2 0 I F; ............ 10 0 0 1 1 ._ _ _ _ _ _ | <' -Ѕ ; ... *............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals .............34 4 93019 1 Totals .............37 3 11*2913 3 * 'To out w hen winning run was scored in tenth inning. i t MKi'- b-ited for Cole in eighth inning; Kane ran for Kling. Chicag) . .................. I 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1-4 Atbletics .................... 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0-S Left on bases--Athletics 10, Chicago 3. Two-base hits-Baker, Murphy, Davis, S c-ult P Archer. Three-base hits-Strunk, Chance. Stolen base- Sheckard. Satcrifice hits-Davis, Murphy, Hofman. Double plays-Bender, Baker, D-viis; Cole, Archer, Chance. Pitchers' record-Off Cole in 8 innings, 10 hits, 3 runs in 29 times at bat. Off Brown in 2 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs in b tim- s at bat. Struck out-By Cole, Davis 2, Lord, Barry, Strunk:; ttal 5. By Brown, Barry. By Bender, Schulte, Archer, Cole 2, Tinker St einfe-!dt total 6. Bases on balls-Off Cole, Bender, Baker, Davis. Off Ben"ur~ Sheckard, Tinker. First base on errors-Athletics 1, Chicago 1. Fumble-Collins. Wild throw-Baker. Muffed foul fly-Davis. Muffed fly-Brown. Hit by pitcher-By Cole, Barry. Plate umpire-Connolly. Base umpire-Rigler. Patrol umpires-Sheridan and O'Day. Time-2.14. Weather-Clear and warm. Attendance-19,150. Official scorers-Richter and Spink. 0 D z Chicago's victory on Saturday aroused FIFTH GAME the enthusiasm of the Cubs' followers, At Chicago, October 23 and the Sunday contest, which was des- tined to be the last of the series, drew Athletics 7, Chicago 2 out the largest attendance, 27,374 per- sons paying for admission, and the receipts, $37,116.50, being only a few hundred dollars under those on the opening day at Philadelphia. Manager Chance decided to pin his hopes to Brown, with Archer, instead of Kling, as his backstop. For seven innings Brown

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 135 pitched in masterly style, and he was given almost perfect sup- port by his team-mates. The eighth inning witnessed another whirlwind attack by Mack's players, five runs going over the plate as the result of four hits, two of which were two baggers, two stolen bases and an error. Manager Mack surprised the spectators by sending in Coombs - , for his third game. The "Iron Man" astonished the crowd by being more effective than at any time during the series, for although the National Leaguers made nine hits, they were scat- tered through seven innings, and only one base on balls was given by Coombs. It looked very bad for Coombs in the fourth session, when Chicago had the bases filled and only one out, but the pitcher proved to be master of the situation by striking out Tinker and Archer. Lapp made his first appearance in this contest, and he caught Coombs' delivery in splendid style. Only one of the three attempts to steal on him was successful. Zimmerman performed the feat, but Schulte twice ended innings by being thrown out trying to pilfer, Collins each time handling the throws. Manager Mack made two shifts in his outfield, Hartsel going to left field and Lord taking Strunk's place in center. Long before the game was over Manager Mack had reason to congratulate himself upon sending Hartsel into the contest, a change which was decided upon at a conference between the White Elephants' leader and seven of his veterans that morning. Hartsel's all-around playing could not have been excelled. He scored two runs, made a hit, stole two bases, one of which played a very important part in the eighth inning rally, and made a long running catch of a drive by Tinker, which was the star play of the contest. Hartsel opened the game by a single to center field. He stole second base when Lord fanned, and came home when Collins singled. The latter also stole second base, but Brown caused Baker to foul out, and he fanned Davis. During the next three innings the Athletics were retired in order, a one-hand stop by Brown featuring Chicago's playing. Chance tied the score in the second inning. The Cubs' leader opened the second session by hitting for two bases, going to third on Zimmerman's sacrifice and scoring on Steinfeldt's single. Chicago had an excellent opportunity to do a lot of damage in the fourth inning, but failed. Hofman, the first man at bat, got the only base on balls during the game off Coombs, but was forced out at second by Chance. Zimmerman's single and Baker's fumble of Steinfeldt's grounder filled the bases. Tinker, who had won many games in the past for Chicago by long drives in such an emergency, was struck out by Coombs, and Archer met a. similar fate. Steinfeldt's fumble of Murphy's grounder gave Philadelphia an opening at the start of the fifth inning, and Danny made the circuit, again putting his team in the lead, on Barry's sacrifice and Lapp's single. The eighth inning proved decisive. Coombs opened with a single, but was forced at second base by Hartsel, who was later declared safe at second base on an attempted steal, Umpire Sheridan's decision being disputed by some of the Cubs. Lord followed with a two-bagger, which scored Hartsel, and Lord came home when Collins followed with another two-bagger to right field. The latter then made the first and only steal of third base during' the series, but he was thrown out at the home plate when Baker' sent a grounder to Zimmerman. Davis followed with a base on balls and Murphy's hard smash was too difficult for Zimmerman to

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142 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. It is easy for any one to understand that this was a task of no mean effort. The cork-center ball was the creation of those who had centered their thought upon producing the best for the best of games. At the beginning of the season there were a few players, like all who are aware that an experiment is being attempted, who were prone to charge their shortcomings to the employment of the new ball. If they failed for the moment the ball was held to be at fault to escape the criticism of the public for the player. At the end of the season the unanimous verdict of the experi- enced men of Base Ball was that the cork-center ball was the biggest hit which had been made in years. Indeed, they were firmly impressed with the conviction that it was by far the best ball which had been used in championship contests since the first league game in Base Ball history. The cork-center ball possessed the quality of lasting throughout a game. Every Base Ball enthusiast knows what that means. If there is one thing more annoying than another in a hard-fought Base Ball contest it is to find the ball growing soggy and dead as the innings progress. Our amateurs, who, perhaps, use a base ball even more thor- oughly than the professionals, owing to the tendency on the part of spectators to help themselves too freely in paid contests to balls which happen to be batted into the crowd, are never so happy and so well pleased as when they find themselves in posses- sion of a Base Ball which, at the end of the ninth inning, is giving as much satisfaction as it did in the first. As a matter of fact, during the season of 1910 it was the verdict of amateurs who were trying the cork-center ball, that the new model was fre- quently better and easier to handle toward the close of the game than it had been at the start in its first stiffness from the factory. That is the finest indorsement which any base ball could have. The testimony of professional players was freely offered as to the "lasting power" of the cork-center base ball. Repeatedly, when talking about its merits, they dwelt upon the fact that It was as easy to hit hard and successfully in the final inning as it was in the first. That means everything to the professional. A ball which has become soggy, and which is without the elastic foundation which is given by the cork center, is likely to be so devoid of life in the finishing stages of a game that it is almost impossible to make a rally with it. A team which is behind finds it out of the question to gain enough runs to come up. with its adversaries or enough to win. In this connection particular attention is called to the season of 1910 in regard to the recurring rallies day after day through- out the season. Ninth inning finishes, the most spectacular of all, were common. Games ran into extra innings and not infre- quently in such extra-innings contests a high total was run up in an inning beyond the fixed life of the game-nine innings- showing that the ball still retained its life and vigor. There are repeated instances of three-base hits and home runs in the closing innings of games in which but one or two base balls had been used throughout the afternoon, showing that the ball retained form and the necessary elasticity to make it as respon- sive as ever to the bat. There were fewer complaints than ever on the part of pitchers that the ball was so "punky" that they were unable to obtain a good grasp upon its surface. If anybody is quick to complain

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Manager Chicago National League Club. ift~~~~ ~~PHILADELPHIA, November 2, 1910. MIESSRS. A. G. SPALDING & BROS.. 126 Nassau St., New York. GENTLEMEN: In the recent World Series between the Philadelphia American League club and the Chicago National League club I wish to state that the Official National League Balls used in the three games played in Chicago were of exceptional quality, and I am further glad to state that in my Base Ball experience I have never seen L a better base ball than the balls used in the three games above referred to. Yours truly, CONNIE MACK, Manager Philadelphia American League Club.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 145 President Taft and the Base Ball Season of 1910 Base Ball needs no official approval as the national game of the United States. The citizens of the Republic settled that issue ;long ago. None the less is it grateful and enjoyable to feel that the Chief Executivd of the Nation can experience a sense of personal enjoy- mcnt and' personal comfort in attending one of the contests which are conducted by our well-organized leagues. More than once during the season of 1910 the President per- mitted himself a few minutes of relaxation and quietly slipped away to one of the contests of the American League, which are played in Washington, and whenever opportunity offered and time made it possible, he attended games of the National League as he happened to be in a city in which a National League club was located. President Taft believes in Base Ball. He has said so more than once. He tells his friends that it is a pastime which is worth any man's while, and advises them to banish the blues by going to a ball game and waking up with the enthusiasts of the bleachers who permit no man to be grouchy among them. His first game in 191'0 was at Washingtan. The date was the opening og the American League season, and that was also the afternoon on which he tossed to Walter' Johnson, pitcher for the Washington club a new Base Ball. ' There were 15,000 spectators in the Washington stands, and the opponents of Washington were the Athletics. President Taft at the time had no idea that he was looking upon the future American League champions and the future champions .of the world. Most of the spectators had arrived at the park when the Presi- rent rolled up in his motor car, accompanied by Mrs. Taft and by Captain Butt, his aide. The party was loudly cheered when it made its appearance and the President, as usual, insisted on sitting in the front row with the "fans," instead of occupying a private box on the roof. Vice-President Sherman, accompanied by a party. Of cronies who - iknew Base Ball like their primers, occupied seats near third base, where the Vice-President was engaged in a Base Ball argument as to which would be likely to prove the best pitcher of the league In the season to come. When it was time for the game to begin, Umpire Evans, who is an; Ohio man as well as the President, walked up to him and A . handed him a new ball to toss out to the players. There was quite a S-cramble for it on the part of the Washington team. Johnson managed to catch the ball, and the next day he sent it to the White House, asking the President if he would attach his auto- graph to it. President Taft good-naturedly complied and sent the ball back to Johnson with the following inscription: "For Walter Johnson, with the hope that he may continue to be as formidable as in yesterday's game. William H. Taft." Before the President tossed the ball to the players he examined it carefully, evidently being up on Base Ball law, which requires that the ball must be in the best of condition. The "fans" laughed 4(| a little as they watched him. Only a little later in the season the President paid a visit to Pittsburg, and he went to a game of the National League in that city. It was not the first time he had seen a contest in Pittsburg,

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I| ~PSPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 147 for the year before he had enjoyed a contest at the old grounds on the river front occupied by the Pittsburg club. On his visit in 1910 he took the opportunity to compliment the Pittsburg management on the great strides forward which had been made in the national sport. "I little thought when I was a boy that we would ever see anything quite so sumptuous as this," was his remark as he pointed to Pittsburg's elegant new stand, "although I always had a notion that Base Ball was a greater force for good in the United States than seemed to be thought by some of the stricter of our citizens, who look too much upon all amusement as a waste of time." The President saw Chicago play with the Pittsburg team, and during the afternoon Hans Wagner, the phenomenal player, who has performed so many deeds of wonder on the ball field, was presented with an autograph Base Ball by the President. Wagner added the ball to the many trophies which are indica- tions of his prowess in the national game. Nothing can get the ball away from him, and he is quite as proud of it as he is of his batting average. The President and his party sat together at the ball park, and before the gates were opened there was a line of 8,000 anxious "fans" waiting to make their way inside and cheer the President when he made his appearance. It took 500 policemen to keep the crowd in line, and even then the ropes were broken and the would-be spectators filled the street so completely that they were crowded into the porches of houses opposite the Base Ball grounds. The President was also a guest of the St. Louis Base Ball I' . clubs during the year. He visited both the National League and the American League narks on the same day in that city, and while in St. Louis took occasion to say a few words about Base Ball. His remarks were as follows: "The game of Base Ball is a clean, straight game, and it sum- mons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to thousands and thousands, and I like to go for two reasons-first, because I enjoy it myself, and second, because if by the presence of the temporary Chief Magistrate such a healthful amusement can be encouraged, I want to encourage it."

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SPAiDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 149 The almost instantaneous realization of his forecast of the future has been commented upon time and again. It proved con- clusively how closely in touch he was with all that pertains to Base Ball and how far reaching his discernment as to what was in store for the national pastime. No one can touch upon Base Ball too lightly in view of the relation which it holds to the republic. It is very true that Base Ball has its humorous and light side, and that is one of its principal charms, but to the men who have fought for Base Ball, have been through its crises and who have shouldered the burden of maintaining it until its improvement brought it the attention which it deserved, there is a sentimental side to the pastime, which is even more pronounced than the practical box office accessory or the artistic playing end. The Editor of the GUIDE was one of those who chanced to converse with Mr. Spalding in regard to his prediction as to Base Ball's future. Citing the name of a principal club owner the writer said: "Mr. Spalding, that prediction which you made as to the future was considered not only by the gentleman to whom reference has been made but by others as just a little short of superhuman. Had you been wrong in one or two particulars it would still have been so far from the ordinary that it could not but have attracted attention, but it was accurate throughout." Thrusting his chair back from his desk and smiling a little Mr. Spalding looked meditatively out of the window and replied: "Now to be perfectly frank with you, it almost took my breath away to see the thing realized so quickly. I felt bound that it was coming. I was sure of it, but if you had told me at the time that I painted the future of Base Ball so brightly, that we both would see all of it realized in two years, I think that I should have warned you not to be over optimistic. And now," he continued, as he bent forward and looked ahead of him with a serious air, "I am going to make you another prophesy, and it will be even more important and greater than that in regard to the development of Base Ball in the United States. "I predict for Base Ball that in the year to come it will be the great international game of the world. We who live in the United States can see its development in our nation. I once had the pleasure of taking two Base Ball nines around the world. I can see everywhere the bearing of the fruit from the seed that was sown. Across the Atlantic and across the Pacific Base Ball has reached out to other shores and holds firm lodgment. Who I would have thought twenty years ago that American Base Ball nines would cross the mighty Pacific Ocean and play with teams in Japan? Who would have thought that the boys of the Philip- pine Islands would be so enthusiastic over Base Ball that the youngsters are fairly crazed over it in the fields about Manila? Who pictured that when the summer season throws a glow of warmth over the cold barrens of the great Northwest the national game of the United States would wax vigorously in hands that knew naught of Base Ball until the game was introduced from our own country? Isn't that a marvelous. growth of itself? And I shall say nothing of the slow but certain progress that Base Ball is making in other climes, where the tendency to outdoor recrea- tion is to adopt Base Ball for the variety which is afforded by our sport, a variety which can be found in no other game." The Base Ball enthusiast who lives and has his being to-day shouting for the great feats which are performed by our American players, may yet sit in a grand stand and see the brown race and the white race contesting for Base Ball supremacy,' as they see their representatives contesting for commercial advantage.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. American Association BY FRED R. COBURN, MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Bad weather proved a handicap early in the race. Although this hit the Northern clubs harder than those of the Southern and Eastern ends of the circuit, the loss was more than repaid later on in the campaign when the battle for first place began to develop into a tense and exciting contest for supremacy. Minneapolis, with a club composed almost entirely of players with big league experience, won the pennant quite easily, the first flag gained by a Minneapolis club for more than a decade. Under the able management of Joseph Cantillon, formerly the leader of the Wash- ington American League club, who is a partner with his brother Michael in the ownership of the Minneapolis franchise, the Millers made rapid progress after an ordinary start and by the time the hot weather was on in deadly earnest the veterans were going at top speed. The excellent pitching of Hughes, good box work by Fiene, Pat- terson and Altrock, all four veterans, an airtight infield and the heavy hitting of Cravath, Williams, Clymer and Rossman were the strong factors in the success of the Minneapolis team.; The acquisi- tion of Rossman from the Columbus club in mid-season proved a master stroke upon the part of the Minneapolis manager. The former Detroit player plugged up the right field hole and hit the ball in fine style. Another good move was the acquiring of Barry -y McCormick in mid-season from the Milwaukee club. Mike Kelley's St. Paul club started off the season in wonderful fashion, winning an overwhelming majority of their games during the first month of play. It was maintained. however, that St. Paul was not a consistent club and would slump sooner or later. This slump began to come about the time Minneapolis got well started and it was only the skillful management and diplomacy of Kelley that kept his team in the race until near the finish. The St. Paul infield was unable to keep up the pace and the pitching staff was also crippled by inabilities and illness during the stren- uous periods of the race. Toledo made a mid-season switch of managers but remained dangerous contenders until the. end. William ("Ducky") Holmes, the former big league outfielder, started out in charge of the club, but was succeeded by Harry Hinchman. His success with the team was one of the features of the association struggle. Blessed with two of the best and most consistent twirlers in the league, a fairly good infield and outfield and a bunch of sluggers, Hinchman ^* - kept dissension out of the ranks of the Mud Hens and proved the most feared opponent of the winning Minneapolis team. Toledo finished second, while the best St. Paul could get was fourth place. Columbus made a splendid finish after having received addi- tional strength from big league teams. The Columbus management was sorely handicapped by persistent injuries to players, but fought pluckily for a good position and succeeded in fighting their way toward the top of the heap, winding up the season stronger prob- ably than any of the other clubs. Kansas City got away to a miserable start, but in the last two months of the campaign came like a whirlwind and was one of the strongest clubs when the season ended, finishing in fifth place. The battle between Toledo, St. Paul, Columbus and Kansas City in the last month of the race was one of the features of the campaign. Practically neck and neck during this period the posi- tions of these four clubs were not definitely determined until the last few games of the summer's campaign.

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that no one team is very much stronger than the others. The league's legislation along the lines of salary and playing limits has been highly successful, or such a story could not be written. When the barrier went up in front of the 1910 field the New Orleans Pelicans were picked by a majority of Southern Base Ball fans and experts, but not a great majority. The Pelicans justified the "advance information" by cantering home in front by about eight games, a small margin for six months of Base Ball playing, but the largest margin ly which a championship has been won in several years.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 209 Indiana-Illinois-Iowa League BY VINCENT Y. DOLLMAN, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. In reviewing the history of the season of 1910 attention must be called to the fact that the pennant-winning Springfield team established a new world's record for consecutive games won from the beginning of the season, winning ten games from the opening day, May 6, and never being out of first place through the entire race. This record was! not equalled by any club in organized Base Ball during 1910. On July 1 Springfield was seventeen games in the lead. While the team was strong in the personnel of its players, the genius of President R. F. Kinsella was a potential motive power back of it. It has been the policy of the Springfield club, under the leadership of President Kinsella, to recruit the club each year with young talent. Success has been the result. Springfield has been a member of' the I.I.I. League for six years under the present management, won three pennants, finished second once and third once, a record that will stand in history for a minor league when one considers that each year the local fans see practically a new team as the result of sales and drafts from the year previous. Of the players of the pennant-winning team disposed of during the 1910 season, Meloan was secured by the White Sox, Schaller by the Detroit Americans, Willis by the St. Louis Americans, Hartley by Toledo of the American Association, where he was drafted in ten days by the New York Giants; Laudermilk by the St. Louis Nationals, and Steiger by the St. Paul club of the Amer- ican Association. Pitcher Merz, who was with Springfield a portion of the season, was transfererd to Decatur and later sold to Indian- apolis. Borton, who was drafted by the Chicago White Sox from the Ottumwa club, was also the property of the local club, Spring- field receiving the draft money for him. Concededly the "Three-Eye" League is one of the strongest and best minor leagues in existence. It was launched ten years ago, and has gone through without the loss of a club during the playing season. The league was organized in 1900 by M. H. Sexton of Rock Island, Belden Hill of Cedar' Rapids, James T. Hayes of Davenport Edwa:id Holland of Bloomington and Wilson Bering of Decatur' together 'with other gentlemen who were in the dircuit at that time. j The "Three-,Eye"'^ League, so it is authoritatively claimed, fur- nishes more; piayers -to ::the :major leagues than any Class B -league in the country, and its 'existence largely depends ,pon ~the sale and draft of tplayers. The league has been fortunate in enjoying the 'services of such Napoleons of Base Ball as M. H. Sexton, Edward Holland, the late Thomas J. Loftus, and A. R.' Tierney,' who have served as its presidents. President Tierney of Chicago is now head of the organization. The president also acts as treasurer and secretary. It is the consensus of opinion in the "Three Eye" League that the playing .hjedule for 1911 will consist of 140 games to be: played in 138 days. Wilson Bering has had the honor of arranging, the schedules for this league for a number of years and they have' been- satisfactory to the clubs interested. -. , The Spalding ball is the official ball used in the 'Three Eye" League. It has been used since the inception of the league and has proven absolutely satisfactory. The standing of the clubs and the averages of the leaders in Batting and Fielding in 1910 are given herewith. The complete official records are published in SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL RECORD. for sale by all newsdealers, price 10 cents.

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Southern Michidan League BY HOWARD P. HALL, KALAMAZOO, MICH. Kalamazoo won the pennant under the leadership of Charles Wagner, who proved a most capable manager. He surrounded himself with a team of veterans, a lot of heady players who knew how to make the most of all chances. Lansing ran neck and neck with Kalamazoo the last three weeks of the season and the two teams finished tied for first place, the post-season series being won by Kalamazoo, largely due to the masterly pitching of Jacobson, who won four game,. Adrian ran third in the race and was all along a dangerous contender until the second week in August when Kalamazoo put them out of the running by taking four out of five games. Battle Creek, always last in Southern Michigan flag races, showed great improvement over former years and finished fourth in the race. During June and the first of July the team was a strong first, but the sale of Zwilling :and Rogge to Chicago and catcher McKee to Indianapolis hurt the club's chances. Flint, looked upon as a certain first division club, landed in fifth place. During May and June the cluo was a contender for first honors, but in July dropped into the second division and played very uncertain ball. Bay City finished in sixth place, and that after being in seventh and eighth places a greater portion of the season. Jackson never got started and was crippled by a weak pitching staff. Saginaw, champions of two years, played in the hardest kind of luck and were never able to get above the sixth hole. Sickness, injuries and frequent changes in the line-up gave the team a kaleidoscopic appearance during the year. The standing of the clubs and ,the averages of the leaders in Batting End Fielding 4-i- 1910 are given herewith. The complete official records are published in SPALDING'S .0F-FICIAL BASE BALL RECORD, for sale by all newsdealers, price 10 cents. STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. Club. W. L. PC. Club. W. L. PC. Kalamazoo ........ 87 52 .626 Flint ............... 69 71 .493 Lansing ........... 87 52 .626 Bay City .......... 59 .81 .422 Adrian ............. 83 56 .596 Jackson ............ 51 85 .375 i Battle Creei ......72 64 , .529 Saginaw ........... 46 93 .331 CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS JN .PREVIOUS YEARS. 1906-Mt. Clemens ............... .670 98 -Saginw................... .581 1907-Tecumseh ................. .622 1909- Saginaw ....584 INDIVIDUAL BATTING. Name and Club. G. AB. R. H. 2B. 3B.HR.TB.BB.SO.SH.SB. PC.- Bowser, Flint ............ 110 439 66 150 38 10 14 250 16 57 10 39 .342 Saier, Lansing ........... 141 516 83 175 39 16 3 255 57 61 14 42 .339 Zwilling, Battle Creek... 77 270 46 88 15 13 3 137 43 40 16 15 .326 Knisley, Saginaw ........ 45 170 16 55 9 1 3 75 8 19 4 12 .324 Fullerton, Adrian ........ 130 478 76 150 19 9 2 193 55 35 4 55 .314 Lagoe, Kalamazoo ....... 31 96 3 30 5 0 0 35 11 13 1 3 .313 McKee, Battle Creek ..... 89 321 45 100 15 9 1 136 .34 26 11 12 .312 Helmer, Jackson .......... 5 13 0 4 2 0 0 6 0 4 0 0 .308 Cogswell, Flint ........... 93 359 41 108 20 11 2 156 19 29 9 8 .301 Cote, Kalamazoo .......... 127 457 65 137 22 10 2 185 42 41 30 26 .300 Ball, Adrian .............. 140 550 117 165 23 22 6 250 85 73 8 57 .310 Hinton, Kalamazoo ...... 12 34 2 10 3 0 0 13 3 5 1 0 .294 Wuffli, Saginaw .......... 139 519 64 152 27 9 2 203 18 46 25 51 .293

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE PBLL GUIDE. 256 Illinois-Missouri League BY R. E. ROLLINS, PEKIN, ILL. The league experienced its most disastrous year, for two of the teams were forced to retire before the close of the schedule. Beardstown dropped out early in August. Its franchise was taken by Jacksonville after the Northern Association had disbanded. This city remained but two weeks, when it dropped out of the league. Macomb next decided to retire, the league finishing with Pekin, Clinton, Canton and Lincoln. The Illinois-Missouri League had the distinction of having: more players drafted from its ranks by the major leagues than did the Three-Eye or Central Association. P. Smith, the speedy Canton outfielder, was sold to the Chicago Nationals, and this club also drafted Sewell, catcher, and Wolfe, outfielder, from the Lin- coln team. Forsythe, first baseman, and Jenkins, pitcher, were drafted from Pekin by the New York Nationals. Forsythe was the demon hitter of the league, his record being .380. On Labor Day he pounded out three two-baggers and four singles in eight times at bat in a double-header game. Jenkins was the premier pitcher of the league, winning twenty-seven and losing eight. He equaled the world's record in two departments, holding his opponents to a no-hit-no-run game and also allowing but twenty-seven batsmen to face him in another game. Taylorville, Ill., made application and was admitted to member- ship at the close of the season, thus filling the six-club circuit, as, Macomb was given permission to retain its franchise. The, standing of the clubs and the averages of the leaders in Batting and Fielding in 1910 are given herewith. The complete- official records are published in SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL, RECORD, for sale by all newsdealers, price 10 cents. STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. Club. Pek. Clin. Can. Lin. B.-J. Mac. P. W. L. PC. Pekin . ..... ......... .. 17 18 10 11 10 113 66 47 .584 Clinton ................ 7 .. 13 18 9 11 115 58 57 .504 Canton ................. 8 12 .. 20 8 7 117 55 ' 62 .470 Lincoln ................ 15 16 3 .. 3 6 114 43 71 .377 *Beardst'n-Jacks'ville. 7 4 13 11 .. 9 80 44 36 .550 *Macomb .............. 10 8 15 12 5 .. 93 50 43 .538 * Beardstown disposed of its franchise to Jacksonville, which city failed to finish the season, Macomb also dropping out. CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. 1908-Hannibal ................. .578 1 1909-Monmouth ................ .606 INDIVIDUAL BATTING. Name and Club. G. AB. R. H. 2B.3B.HR.TB.SH.SB.SO.BB.OFS.PC. Forsythe, Pekin ....... 85 305 53 116 26 7 1 159 3 21 15 31 2 .380 McFarland, Clinton .... 12 46 7 15 3 0 0 17 4 2 7 2 0 .326 Weisenberger, B.-J ..... 59 205 28 64 9 2 1 80 6 17 34 11 2 .312 Lindberg, Clinton ...... 112 445 61 138 14 5 0 162 7 36 41 26 1 .310. E. Smith, Canton ...... 66 211 24 65 15 7 1 97 14 11 20 18 3 .308 Rhoads, Mac.-Lincoln. 104 353 47 108 22 8 0 146 9 11 52 21 0 .306 Harrison, Mac.-Can .... 114 434 58 130 16 7 2 166 31 27 27 17 2 .300' Coombs, Pekin ........ 47 164 30 49 4 4 1 64 3 15 24 30 0 .299 P. Smith, Lin.-Can .... 95 37 43 110 7 3 0 123 9 28 73 28 1 .297 Suttles, Mac.-Clinton.. 106 370 50 109 15 5 1 136 39 15 25 27 1 .295 Wilson, Macomb ...... 86 356 50 105 14 7 1 136 17 16 47 8 0 .295. McCann, Pekin ........ 71 224 27 66 11 1 0 79 10 18 18 18 0 .295 Conaors, Mac.-Can ..... 114 460 48 135 14 3 0 155 6 12 25 13 1 .293.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 845 the field, canvassing the State for votes, and that in his judgment his election under existing circumstances was impossible. He formulated a tentative platform upon which he thought some can- didate ought to stand, unpledged to any private or corporate inter- ests, free from entangling alliances of every kind, uncommitted by pre-election promises to any organized body or individual and, as he supposed, closed the incident with another declination. To his great surprise, his platform was seized upon by the Busi- ness Men's Committee as the ideal platform of a clean business man, and they once more urged him to forego his personal wishes in the matter and accept. Finally, with election day only one month away, Mr. Spalding yielded a reluctant assent to the use of his name as a candidate for the office of United States Senator before the primary election of August 16, 1910. Mr. Spalding made his campaign strictly upon the provisions of the primary law. He kept his expenses within the amount per- mitted by the letter and spirit of the enactment. Having the support of no organized faction of his party, he issued a paper bearing the title, "Spalding for Senator," thousands of copies of which he sent broadcast to the voters of the State. He mrade no personal campaign aside from this document, in which he set forth the conditions that had brought about his (andidacy, the platform upon which he stood, the confidence that had been expressed in him by his fellow citizens of San Diego, and boldly proclaiming pride in his athletic career, the fact of his having been a profes- sional ball player having been used in certain quarters in a futile attempt to belittle his candidacy. The primary election of August 16, 1910, will long be remem- bered for the jolt it gave the professional politicians and political bosses in California. Hiram Johnson, endorsed by the Lincoln- Roosevelt faction of the Republican party, for Governor, received a olurality of about 45,000 votes. John D. Works, endorsed by the same faction for United States Senator, carried 401/2 legislative districts, while Albert G. Spalding, without endorsement of any faction or organized body, carried 73 legislative districts. Thus was Judge Works disqualified by the votes of the people under the primary law, and by the same token did Mr. Spalding become the only legal and logical candidate of the Republican party for the United States Senatorship from California. And now, trouble began. The faction of the Republican party that had endorsed Judge Works had been most insistent and vocif- erous in declarations of loyalty to the primary law. It was with the members of that faction a pet measure. Mr. Chester H. Rowell, president of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, had presented a resolu- tion at the State Republican Convention in June-only two months before the primary election-binding the party to stand by the letter of that law. Judge Works, stumping the State in his own behalf, had repeatedly declared that he would not think much of any legislator, who, having been instructed by his constituents to vote for another should vote for him. Now, however, all was changed. Mr. Meyer Lissner, who had been elected chairmnan of the Itepublican State Central Committee, called a conference of legislators at Santa Barbara, where a con- spiracy was formed to steal the United States Senatorship from Mr. Spalding, whom the people had chosen, and give it to Mr. Works, whom they had repudiated. Chester H. Rowell, editor of the Fresno Republican, who had introduced the resolution to make the provisions of the primary law binding upon the party, now published an editorial, in which, while acknowledging that the vote given to Mr. Spalding was a "miracle," he contended that the primary law was absurd; that it would be changed at the next ses- sion of the Legislature; that it was not morally or legally bind-

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had changed his mind. Democrats were openly solicited and bar- gained with for their support, and the number of these who were instructed for Spalding but voted for Works, and received impor- tant appointments, was legion. As showing the extent to which this game was practiced, the following excerpt from the Sacramento Union of January 11 will be accepted as evidence: "Thirty-one members of the Assembly instructed at the primaries by the voters of their districts to vote for A. G. Spalding for United States Senator, thirty of whom voted for Judge Works-all fared well at the hands of Speaker Hewitt in his appointment of the standing com- mittees of the lower house yesterday. Nineteen of the thirty-one members were given chairmanships of commit- tees, and those who failed to land chairmanships are found in many of the most important committees of the house." So brazen was the use of the people's patronage to secure votes for Works, whom the people had repudiated, that it called out the severe denunciation of the leading newspapers of the State, among which may be named the San Francisco Call, the Los Angeles Times, the Sacramento Union and the San Diego Union. It was not until Monday, January 9, that the consummation of the iniquity, which former United States Senator Cornelius Cole, of Los Angeles, characterizes as the "most infamous political out- rage of modern times," was carried out. Mr. Spalding, who had theretofore held it beneath the dignity of one aspiring to the United States Senatorship to be present, button-holing legislators and pleading with them to do what they had been instructed to do by their constituency, in response to assurances that corrupt practices were being resorted to for the accomplishment of the overthrow of the will of the people, appeared upon the scene at Sacramento. His arrival was the occasion of an outpouring of the people, who gave him a reception surpassing in sincerity any-

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Ball he must conform to the strictest mental, moral, and phys- ical discipline, and must develop wonderfully in patience, self- reliance, and fair-mindedness. He must keep at the top notch in all these details of fine character if he would keep his position in the game. Ability to take criticism cheerfully is one of the great requisites of real success in any line. I know of no profession which requires of those who win in it the disposition and ability to do this which Base Ball requires. "'Now as to the effect of Base Ball on the mind of the boy player. If a boy is naturally selfish, peevish, or crab-minded the members of the team he plays with will soon knock that out of him or drive him from the team. He won't want to leave the team, for Base Ball, you must remember, is ingrained in his blood. If he is inclined to be hot-tempered, the loss of a few games and the respect of his associates as the result will help mightily toward correcting it. If he is prone to be a cad, to put on airs, to assume a superiority over his fellow-players as a result of the social or financial standing of his family, a little joshing from his fellows on the errors he made upon the field will soon bring him down to earth again. If he is unduly timid and shows cow- ardice in a pinch, his mates will quickly cure him or eject him. if he is apprehensive, pessimistic-and no trait is more entirely un-American-he will soon lose his place upon the team. The lad who is continually predicting a defeat will not last long in Base Ball. And the beauty of the things is that rarely will he let his faults go far enough to bar him from the game-his love of it is too instinctive and too real. Rather will he let the game correct the faults. And there you are. It's a man as well as a soul builder. "'The psychology of Base Ball? It is the psychology of success. "'I know of nothing which more fitly trains the body, mind, and soul. The game plays havoc with a boy's or man's emotions. In a day the player may well rise to the fine heights of victory and sink to the dark depths of black despair in a defeat. And it must be the one or the other. There is no midway station. The score is 5 to 3. You win or lose, and quickly learn that nothing is accomplished by trying to lay the blame, if defeat comes, upon the umpire or upon your fellow-players. Pleading a sore finger or strained muscle or tendon wins nothing for the van- quished player in his own mikd or the minds of his associates. That is a good thing. After many victories, and the defeats which are quite certain to go with them, a player must, of sheer necessity, achieve self-poise, learn to take winning calmly, and lose philosophically. He may well reach that super-point where he looks grave in victory and smiles with hope when he is van- quished. "'Base Ball has for a long time been important in the educa- tion of our youth-far more important than most people think- and it is destined to become still more important. The day will come, I think, when all American school authorities will supply

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352 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. the necessary grounds to play the game on as an essential adjunct to every public school. The game means countless benefits, and not a single danger to the boy who plays it. You may have gathered from what I have already said that I consider it the greatest game on earth. I do, and doing so am proud of my good judgment. There should be Base Ball grounds adjacent to or very near each public school building in the United States. "'Base Ball is the only sport which is severe enough to benefit and not severe enough 'to overstrain. Base Ball players live to good old ages, almost always. I wish I had the list at hand. The longevity of ex-professionals would surprise you. I myself began to play on the advice of my physician, and I made a busi- ness of it in the end.' "I had not asked so very many questions. They had not been needed. Mr. Spalding puts his words across the plate as accur- ately and as logically as, in the old days, he pitched his balls. But now I asked one. " 'Even if the game had not resulted in great wealth and fame for you, would you still be glad you took it up?' "He laughed. The Greek countenance, framed with white hair, broke into a particularly winning set of wrinkles; the Bishop's face became that of the jolly monk in the world famous picture. "'I'm a candidate for Senator,' he said, 'and ought not to use slang, but-I-sure-would. Glad? Why, I tell you it meant health to me-the biggest thing of all. It has taken me around the world again, and yet again; it has thrown me into contact with the finest set of men this country ever has produced. It has taught me that humanity is, at the bottom, clean of mind and soul. It has made me a rank optimist-and it has kept me one. It is the only sport on earth. " 'I could name a hundred Base Ball players-yes, two hundred and then more-who have become important, worthy, and respected men In later years. There's John M. Ward, for instance. Senator Gorman was a Base Ball player once. John K. Tener, the next Governor of Pennsylvania, was a professional and went around the world with us in 1888. Senator Bulkeley of Connecticut was a player first and then first President of the National League. Base Ball for a few years is one of the best character builders I can think of. An able boy's blood always runs high and the first thing he must learn, if he is to win success, is to control it. Base Ball teaches that, first, last and all the time. "'The game was fortunate from the beginning. It was spread throughout th2 country by the soldiers returning to their homes after the Civil War. Now it is in its third generation. I hesitate to guess what it will be when it has reached its fourth. The crowds to-day are big; the crowds of future days will be much bigger. Every boy, you see, plays Base Ball, and the players of to-day are the spectators of to-morrow. The human being who has ever got the germ of Base Ball in his blood, whether the infection comes when he is young or after he has reached maturity, never gets it out.' "'What effect has your Base Ball record and entuhsiasm had upon your candidacy for the United States Senate?' I inquired, really wondering. "'How do I know, yet?' he asked. But then he added: 'Give me the Base Ball votes of California and my opponents may have the rest.' "Across the room from me sat Homer Davenport, most famous of the world's cartoonists and himself a Base Ball crank of advanced mania. " 'Any man.' said Davenport, not looking up from his sketch pad (which Mrs. Spalding, also, was intent upon), 'who can

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354 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. SPALDING'S SIMPLIFIED BASE BALL RULES Simplified Base Ball rules have been prepared by Mr. A. G. Spalding of New York and Chicago, who is the recognized authority on the National Game. They are of great assistance to beginners as well as to veterans. Based on the Official Playing Rules, as published in Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide, they state in condensed form all the technicalities that must be observed in the sport without the somewhat dry and formal wording which is necessarily employed by the rule makers to state each fact with great explicitness. The Ball Ground Base Ball is played upon a level field, upon which is out- lined a square, which is known as the infield or "diamond." The term "diamond," in a broader sense, is also frequently used in the United States to apply to the entire playing field. Literally, however, the "diamond" is the infield proper. The infield is bounded by the base-running paths, which extend from base to base. The bases are placed at right angles to each other, on each corner of the "diamond," at intervals of ninety feet beginning from the home plate. Thus, first base must be ninety feet from home plate, second base ninety feet from first base, third base ninety feet from second base and also ninety feet from the home plate, thus completing a perfect square. The territory which lies behind third base, second base and first base, beyond the infield and within the lines defining fair ground and also without these lines, is known as the outfield. All that portion of the field outside of the base lines that extend from home plate to first base and from home plate to third base, all territory behind the home plate and all terri- tory outside of straight lines reaching from the outside corner of third and first bases indefinitely to the outfield is foul ground. Sometimes it is impossible for boys who desire to play Base Ball to obtain a field sufficiently large for the regulation diamond, whose dimensions have previously been stated, and in such cases an effort should always be made to place the bases at equal distances from each other in order that the symmetry of the diamond and the correct theory of the game may be preserved. Players of younger years may find that a smaller diamond adds more enjoyment to their amusement, since they are better able to cover the ground in fielding the ball in a smaller area and do not become so fatigued by running the bases when the latter are stationed at their full legal dis- tance from each other. The bases, except home plate, are best constructed of canvas bags filled with sawdust. Home plate should be of whitened rubber, whenever it is possible to obtain it. Some cruder sub- stance may be used for bases if nothing else is obtainable, but it is best to follow the suggestions given. First, second and third bases should be attached to pegs driven in the ground, and home plate should be sunk so that its upper surface is on a level with the surface of the ground. The pitcher's position on a diamond of regulation size is located sixty and five-tenths feet from home plate, and on a

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356 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. Field Rules No person shall be allowed upon any part of the playing field except the players in uniform, the manager of each side (and the latter not when the game is in progress, except that he is in uniform) ; the umpire and the officers of the law. No manager, captain, or player is supposed to address the specta- tors. In a regular League match this is considered a viola- tion of the rules. (See Rules Nos. 75-77 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Soiling and Providing Balls No player shall be allowed to soil a new ball prior to put- ting it into play. In League games the home team provides the ball. It is customary in smaller leagues to expect the home team to do the same. The umpire has the custody of the ball when it is not in play, but at the conclusion of the game the,ball becomes the property of the winning team. (See Rule No. 14 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Number and Position of Players Two teams make up -each contest with nine players on each side. The fielders are known as the pitcher, the catcher, the first baseman, the second baseman, the third baseman, the shortstop, the left fielder, the center fielder and the right fielder. None of these is required to occupy an exact position on the field, except the pitcher, who must stand with his foot touching the pitcher's plate when in the act of delivering the ball to the batter, and the catcher, who must be within the "catcher's space" behind the batter and within ten feet of home plate. Players in uniform must not occupy seats in the stands or mingle with the spectators. (See Rules Nos. 16, 17 and 18 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Substitute Players It is always advisable to have a sufficient number of sub- stitutes in uniform ready to take the field in case any player shall become disabled or be disqualified. It is the duty of the captain of each team immediately to announce changes of players to the umpire, and the umpire shall announce them to the opposing team and spectators. When a pitcher is taken from his position his substitute must continue to pitch until the batsman has reached first base or has been put out. (See Rule No. 28 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Choice of Innings- Fitness of Field for Play The home team has the choice of innings and determines whether the ground is fit for play providing it has rained before the beginning of the game. If two clubs from the same

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358 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. pitcher's plate. When the ball is delivered the pitcher must face the batter and one of his feet must be in contact with the pitcher's plate. Not more than one step must be taken in the act of delivery. Whenever the ball after being pitched and without striking the ground goes over any part of home plate between the knee and the shoulder of the batsman it must be called a strike, whether the batsman strikes at it or not. If the pitcher fails to deliver the ball over any part of the plate, or if he delivers it over the plate above the shoulder or below the knee and the batsmanr declines to strike at it, it is called a ball, or if the bases are unoccupied, any ball delivered by the pitcher while either foot is not in contact with the pitcher's plate shall be called a ball. If the ball touches the ground before it passes home plate and is not struck at by the batsman, it is a ball and must be called as such by the umpire. If struck at, it is, of course, recorded as a strike. At the beginning of each inning the pitcher is allowed to throw five balls to the catcher or to an infielder for "warming- up" practice, the batsman refraining from occupying his posi- tion in the "box" at home plate. After the batsman steps into his position the pitcher must not throw the ball around the infield, except to retire a base runner. If he violates this rule and, in the opinion of the umpire, is trying to delay the game, the umpire may call a ball for every throw thus made. If the pitcher occupies more than twenty seconds in delivering the ball to the batter the umpire may call a ball for each offense of this nature. The pitcher must not make any motion to deliver the ball to the batsman and fail to do so, nor must he feint to throw to first base when it is occupied by a runner and fail to complete the throw. Violation of this rule constitutes a balk which gives all runners who are on the bases at the time an opportunity to advance a base each without being put out. A balk is also declared when the pitcher throws to any base to catch a runner without stepping directly toward that base in the act of making the throw; when either foot of the pitcher is behind the pitcher's plate when he delivers the ball- when he fails to face the batsman in the act of delivering the ball; when neither foot of the pitcher is in contact with the pitcher's plate in the act of delivering the ball; when in the opinion of the umpire the pitcher is purposely delaying the game; when he stands in his position and makes any motion with any part of his body corresponding to his customary mo- tion when pitching and fails immediately to deliver the ball; when he delivers the ball to the catcher when the latter is outside of the catcher's box. When a pitched ball, at which the batsman has not struck, hits the batsman before the catcher touches it, the umpire must call it a dead ball and no base runner can advance. Tke batsman, however, must be in his position at the time that the ball hits him and must make every effort to get out of the way of the ball if he fears that it will hit him. If a batsman makes a foul strike, if a foul hit is not caught, if the umpire declares a dead ball, or if a fair hit ball touches a base runner or umpire, if the pitcher makes a balk, or if there is interference with fielder or batsman, the ball is not in play until after it has been returned to the pitcher standing in his position, and the umpire has given the word to resume play. No base runners may advance when the ball is not in play.

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SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 359 Whenever a person not engaged in the game touches a batted or thrown ball, a block follows. This must at once be an- nounced by the umpire, and runners shall be privileged to advance bases until the ball is thrown to the pitcher, standing in his position. After that they advance at their peril. The pitcher may then throw a runner out wherever he sees a possibility of doing so. Should a spectator retain possession of a blocked ball, or throw it or kick it out of the reach of the fielder who is endeavoring to recover it, the umpire must call "Time," and hold all runners at such bases as they occu- pied when he called "Time" until after he has permitted play to resume, with the ball returned to the pitcher standing in his position. (See Rules Nos. 30-37 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Battind Rules Before the game begins each captain must present the bat- ting order of his team to the umpire, who shall submit it to the captain of the other side. This batting order is followed throughout the game except when a player is substituted for another, the substitute batting in the order of the retired player. Each player of each nine must go to bat in his regular order unless a substitute has been authorized to take his place. After the first inning the first batter in each succeeding inning is the player following the man who completed his full time at bat in the inning before. For instance, if a batter has but one strike in the first inning and the third hand be put out while he is at bat, he becomes the first batter in the following inning, not having completed his full time at bat in the inning previous. In such case, any balls and strikes called in the previous inning do not count when he resumes his time at bat. Players of the side at bat must remain on their seats on the players' bench except when called upon to bat, to coach, or to act as substitute base runners. No player of the side at bat except the batsman is priv- ileged to stand in the space behind the catcher, or to cross it while the pitcher and catcher are handling the ball. Players sitting on the bench of the side at bat must get out of the way of fielders who approach them while trying to field a batted or thrown ball. Any legally batted ball that settles on fair ground (the infield) between home and first base, or between home and third base, or that bounds from fair ground to the outfield inside of first base, or third base, or that touches the person of a player or the umpire on fair ground, is a fair hit. A fair hit is also any legally batted ball that first falls on fair territory beyond first base or third base. Any legally batted ball that settles on foul ground is a foul hit, except that a ground hit, should it roll from foul to fair territory between first and home and third and home, and remain there, is a fair hit. A ground hit that first strikes fair territory and rolls out- side of the foul line between first and home, or third and home, is a foul hit. Any legally batted ball that falls on foul territory beyond

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860 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. first base, or third base, or that touches the person of a pfryer or an umpire on foul ground, is a foul hit. A foul tip is the continuation of a strike which has merely been touched by the bat, shoots directly into the hands of the catcher and is held by him. A bunt hit is legally tapping the ball slowly within the infield by the batsman. If a foul result, which is not legally caught, the batsman is charged with a strike, whether it be the first, second or third strike. Any hit going outside the ground is fair or foul as the umpire judges its flight at the point at which it passes beyond the limitations of the enclosure in which the contest takes place. A legal home run over a wall or a fence can only be made when the wall or fence is 235 feet from the home plate. This rule is not invariably followed in amateur games. If the batsman strikes at a pitched ball and misses it, a strike is called. If the batsman fails to strike at a pitched ball which passes over the plate at the proper height, a strike is called. A foul tip caught by the catcher is a strike. A foul hit, whether a fly or a ground hit, bounding to any part of foul ground, is a strike unless the batter has two strikes. After two strikes the batter may foul the ball without penalty unless he bunts or is caught out on a foul fly. All bunts rolling foul are strikes. If the batsman strikes at the ball and misses it, but the ball hits him, it is a strike. If the batsman, with either of his feet out of the batsman's box, hits the ball in any way it is a foul strike and the bats- man is out. If a batsman bats out of turn and it is discovered after he has completed his time at bat, but before the ball has been delivered to the succeeding batsman, the player who should have batted is out, and no runs can be scored, or bases be run, on any play made by the wrong batter. This penalty is not enforced unless the error has been discovered before the ball is delivered by the pitcher to the succeeding batsman. If the error is discovered while the wrong batsman is at bat, the proper player may take his place, but he must be charged with whatever balls and strikes have already been recorded against the wrong batsman. Whenever this happens the batters continue to follow each other in their regular order. Should the batsman who is declared out for batting out of order be the third hand out, the proper batsman in the next inning is the player who would have come to bat had the side been retired by ordinary play in the preceding inning. The batsman is out if he fails to take his position within one minute after the umpire has called for him. The batsman is out if a foul fly, other than a foul tip, is caught by a fielder, providing the latter does not use his cap his protector, or any illegal contrivance to catch the ball, and providing the ball does not strike some object other than a fielder before being caught. It has been ruled that when the ball lodges in the catcher's protector by accident and he secures it before it falls to the ground, the catch is fair. This is a very exceptional play. The batsman is out whenever he attempts to hinder the catcher from fielding or throwing the ball, either by stepping outside of the lines of his position or by deliberate obstruc- tion. The batsman is out when three strikes are called and first

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364 SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. than two coachers on the field, one near first base and the other near third base. * (See Rule No. 58 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Scorind of Runs One run shall be scored every time that a player has made ~he legal circuit of the bases before three men are out, pro- vided that a runner who reaches home on or during a play in which the third man is forced out, or the third man is put out before reaching first base, the runner shall not be entitled to score. A player who makes a legal hit to fair territory is entitled d as many bases as he can advance without being put out. a fielder is unable to get the ball home until the man has ,metmeted the circuit of the bases, the latter is entitled to .a .ome run, provided the fielder has not made a misplay in handling the ball. The same rule applies to the making of a three-base hit, a two-base hit, or a hit for one base, which is also known as a single. A force-out can be made only when a base runner legally loses the right to the base he occupies by the batsman becoming a base runner and he is thereby obliged to advance. (See Rule No. 59 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Ground Rules Any special ground rules shall be understood by both team captains and the umpire, or umpires, in case there be two officials. The captain of the home club establishes the ground rules, but if the visiting captain objects, the matter must be left to the umpire, who has final jurisdiction. (See Rule No. 69 of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.) Umpire's Duties When there are two umpires, the umpire behind the plate is the "Umpire-in-Chief," and the umpire on the bases the "Field Umpire." The "Umpire-in-Chief" has full charge of the game, makes all decisions on balls and strikes and decides all fair and foul hits. If a ball is hit fair, with a runner on first, he must go to third to make a possible decision; with more than one base occupied, he decides whether a runner on third base leaves the base before a fly ball is caught, and if a runner is caught between third and home, with more than one base occupied he decides on the runner nearest home plate. He alone, can forfeit a game. The Field Umpire makes the other decisions. When there is but one umpire he has complete jurisdiction over everything. The umpire has the right to call a draw game, whenever a storm interferes if the score is equal on the last inning played. Calling a "draw game" must not be confounded with calling If the side second at bat is at bat when a storm breaks, and the game is subsequently terminated without further play, and this side has scored the same number of runs as the other side, the umpire can call the game a draw without regard to the score of the last equal inning. In other words, the game is a draw just as it rests.

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