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twg_000000050400 | possibly may produce similar results again, but the admirable offset to this fact is that none of these conditions at any time has daunted the spirit and the resolution of the young men who have zealously been preaching the cause of clean and healthy Base Ball. Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their ability it is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050401 | possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players which is making itself manifest in the South. More high class and attractive athletes are coming from the Southern states in these days than ever was the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have them. When a representative major league team is made up of players who represent every | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050402 | section in the Union, engaged for their skill, it seems as if Base Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national pastime than ever before in the history of the sport. To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers Association and those of the organizations patterned on like lines send greeting. BASE BALL WORTH WHILE? One | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050403 | of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern in Base Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout the season he attends the games and is greatly interested in the work of the players. He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050404 | that he knows the environment of Base Ball players and their character and endeavor as well as any person in the United States. It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the Base Ball players and their friends in his church in New York, and the building always is filled to listen to his discourse. In | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050405 | view of the interest which he takes in the national game and because of his excellent knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the Editor of the GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball players of the United States through the medium of this publication, and he has graciously consented to do so in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050406 | the following pithy and straightforward talks: BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK. The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life. James B. Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for athletes: "Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early and eat wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050407 | game as certainly as the bonehead. I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one had a religious training. Many are church members. All avoid old-time drinking, as our fathers did smallpox. Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally duplicated. He is a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands brains as well as brawn. Minds muddled | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050408 | by licentiousness and liquor are too "leady" for leaders. Hotheadedness topples capable players. I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as gentlemen. They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work makes them brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member of the team gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless as cheers. Every | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050409 | minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do these things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up life's success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved it. No wonder "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million dollars for my experience on the ball field." It taught him how | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050410 | to knock the Devil out of the box. Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests tired nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing out-o'-doors. While yelling he swallows great draughts of lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking cold." He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for another. He stands crowd | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050411 | jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed out. He chums up with any one with easy comments and so gets out of his shell and melts again into a real human. Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It emphasizes the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned recreation to millions. If kept clean its good-doing | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050412 | cannot be measured. Nothing is worth while that does not do that. THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME (From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.) New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this year. The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to portray the very top men of each department of the national | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050413 | game, for it frequently happens in these days, when players take part in only a few innings now and then, that they become entitled to mention in the records, although they do not bear the real brunt of the work. In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be termed the "regulars." Day in and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050414 | day out they were on the diamond, or ready to take their place on the diamond, if they were not injured. NATIONAL LEAGUE. First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the season of . Threatening in other years to become one of the group of leading players, he performed so well in the season past | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050415 | that there is no doubt as to his right. There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the banner second baseman. At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman of the Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was crowded, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050416 | not for efficiency, but in the number of games played by Byrne, third baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of New York. In the matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog surpassed both Lobert and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the honor seems to be fairly deserved by him. John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050417 | Pittsburgh club, fought his way to the position of shortstop in . His fielding was better than that of his rivals and at times he played the position as only a man of his sterling worth can play. Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National League, John A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing pitchers, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050418 | the "Hall of Fame" in the National League this year will include two faces. They are those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club and Tesreau of the New York club. The former won the greater percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under a new rule which classifies pitchers by earned | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050419 | runs, easily led the league. The editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. Heydler's earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon the construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050420 | second. There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of Fame" in . They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of Pittsburgh. Meyers caught by far the larger number of games, and, basing the work of catcher upon the average chances per game, seems to lead his Pittsburgh rival. Both men are sterling performers, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050421 | Meyers is an instance of the greatest improvement on the part of a catcher of any member of the major leagues. For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered, Carey of Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only did he play in the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but his general work in the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050422 | outfield was sensational. For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors Zimmerman, the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with the bat in approached in many ways that of the high class and powerful batters of old. He batted steadily, with the exception of one very slight slump, and his work as batter undoubtedly was | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050423 | of tremendous assistance to Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as the best batter, as he was also the leading maker of home runs and the best two-base hitter of the season. That gives him a triple honor. The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050424 | as some of his contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal his ability to get to third base on long hits. Bescher, as in , earned in the position of leading base runner in the National League. He stole more bases than any other player of the league, and was also the best run getter--that is to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050425 | say, scored more runs than any other player. AMERICAN LEAGUE. First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of games played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, as he did not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, places him in the "Hall of Fame" at first base. Rath is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050426 | a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good work he earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as some of his rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the Chicagos and steadied the infield throughout the year. For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the logical selection. Day in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050427 | and day out he was one of the most reliable shortstops in the American League. At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the honor which he earned for himself in , and he is one of the few players who is a member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in succession. In the outfield, for all | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050428 | around work, the place of honor goes to Amos Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in center field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for most of the year. Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen for years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050429 | honor as pitcher. His average of winning games was very high, and he was compelled to fight hard for many of his victories. The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the leading catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work Carrigan, also of Boston, gives him a close race. Once more Cobb is the leading | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050430 | batsman of the American League. There was none to dispute his right to the title. He was also leading batsman in and is another American League player who holds a position in the "Hall" two years in succession. The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of Philadelphia. He earned the same title in . It is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050431 | a double "Hall of Fame" distinction for him. Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the leading batter for three-base hits. Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by being the leading batter of two-base hits. Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits. Collins of Philadelphia was the best run | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050432 | getter. Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever outfielder of Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and better than all the rest, earns his distinction in joining the "Hall of Fame" by establishing a new record of stolen bases. JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH BY JOHN B. FOSTER. John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050433 | N.Y., on June , . He died November , , near St. Charles, Mo., on his way to California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the age of four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, in Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. At this age he left | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050434 | school and went to Boston, where he obtained a position in a clothing establishment, a business with which he was identified up to his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities in the East, and finally went to Indianapolis in to open a clothing store. The store still occupies the same building, and Mr. Brush continued at the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050435 | head of the business until his death. It was in the early '80s that he first became interested in Base Ball in Indianapolis, and he made himself both wealthy and famous as a promoter. In Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and served as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the close of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050436 | the civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, G.A.R.; a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was also prominently identified with several social and commercial organizations of Indianapolis, notably the Columbia Club, Commercial Club, Board of Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New York Mr. Brush took up membership in the Lambs' Club and the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050437 | Larchmont Club. For several years he made his headquarters at the Lambs' Club. Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush, and two daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. His first wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in . Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was devotedly attached, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050438 | for which he had the highest ideals and aims, began with the Indianapolis club of the National League. It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base Ball by chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to his first immediate association with the national game he was an ardent admirer of the sport, although not connected with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050439 | it in any capacity as owner. He was what might be called, with accurate description, a Base Ball "fan" in the earlier stages of development. An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to procure for the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National League. Mr. Brush was quick to perceive the advantages which this might have in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050440 | an advertising way for the city with which he had cast his lot and subscribed to the stock. Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport there came a time when the cares and the duties of the club had to be assumed by a single individual and it was then that he became actively identified as | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050441 | a managing owner, as the duty of caring for the club fell upon his shoulders. From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively interested in every detail relating to Base Ball which might pertain to the advancement of the sport, and his principal effort in his future participation in the game was to see that it | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050442 | advanced on the lines of the strictest integrity and in such a manner that its foundation should be laid in the rock of permanent success. Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some who looked upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the present moment was to be consulted. The earliest environment of Base | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050443 | Ball was not wholly of a substantial nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in which the hazards had always been against the weak. There was not that consideration of equity which would have been for its best interests, but this was not entirely the fault of the separate members of the Base Ball body, but the result | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050444 | of conditions, in which those whose thought was only for the moment, overshadowed the best interests of the pastime. There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this was less due to a desire upon the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050445 | more fortunate and larger clubs to maintain such a state of affairs, than to the fact that the organization generally had expanded upon lines with little regard to the future. The first general complaint arose from the players who composed the membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that they were asked to perform equally as well | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050446 | as the players of the clubs in the larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did not try to do their best, for this they stoutly attempted under all conditions. It was the effect of a discrimination which was the result of the imperfect regulations that existed relative to the management of the game. This attitude of the players | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050447 | resulted at length in the formation of a body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, but the cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the famous classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it intended to do for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for the revolt of the players and the organization | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050448 | of the Brotherhood League. At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries that the players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable manner. As always had been the case, and probably always is likely to be, the players who received the larger salaries were in no mood to share with their weaker brothers | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050449 | any excess margin of pay which they thought that they had justly earned, and it was not a difficult matter for them to obtain the consent of players who might really have benefited by the plan to co-operate with them on the basis of comradeship. The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, and, if grasped by others, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050450 | they were disregarded, because they conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity. The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his time. His plan was born under the best of intentions, but it unfortunately devolved upon the theory that players would be willing to share alike for their common good. Later in life, through another and unquestionably even better | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050451 | method, he succeeded in bringing forth a plan which attained the very end for which he sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, by a far more efficacious method. The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the National League. The players of the National League and the American Association deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050452 | platform that promised Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was the idea of the general Brotherhood organization that the National League would abandon the fight and succumb, but the National League owners were built of sterner stuff. They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they were combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it developed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050453 | within two months that the public had learned thoroughly the reasons for the organization of the new league and declined to lend it that support which had been predicted and expected. Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint. The Brotherhood League was a pronounced | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050454 | and emphatic failure. This is not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is indelibly impressed upon Base Ball history. It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, should be governed by representative players, but the players would not be governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty much as they pleased, and the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050455 | public remained away from the games. It may be added with truth that the National League games were not much better patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in Base Ball affairs throughout the United States. When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many players from the National League the latter organization undertook to strengthen itself | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050456 | where it could and when Brooklyn and Cincinnati applied for membership in the circuit both were admitted. The New York National League club had lost many of its players and, upon the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the National League circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of note, among them Rusie, Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny. Relative to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050457 | the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it may be said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, asserting stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, but when he felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that Cincinnati become a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, providing that he be permitted | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050458 | to retain his membership in the National League, and transfer such of his players as New York desired to the latter city. It has been alleged that he demanded an exorbitant price from New York for the transfer of the players. This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value of his players, and the worth of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050459 | giving up a Base Ball year in a city in which there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had expressed full confidence in his ability to make a winning fight for the National League, it was agreed that his rights to be considered could not be overlooked. To retain his National League membership he accepted stock in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050460 | the New York club. Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League dealt what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by the purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a boomerang, for before the first day of January, , the Brotherhood League had passed out of existence. The backers of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050461 | the organization, tired of the general conduct of the sport, were only too willing to come to an acceptable agreement and retire. A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H. Byrne and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League to bringing this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden survive, but have retired | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050462 | from active participation in Base Ball affairs. It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball war, that Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The National League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate it. Mr. Brush agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to operate and rebuild that club. That, however, is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050463 | a detail which relates purely to the continuance of a major league circuit. The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball career and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful undertaking in the history of the game, was a complete revolution in the distribution of financial returns. By his success in effecting this Mr. Brush | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050464 | brought about the very purpose which he had sought to attain by his classification plan. But the method was better, for the instruments of this readjustment of conditions were the owners and not the players. Briefly, it was the following: There was still war in Base Ball between the American Association and the National League. Recognizing that the best method | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050465 | to bring about a cessation of this war was to effect an amalgamation of the conflicting forces Mr. Brush sought, with the assistance of others, to weld both leagues into one. He was aided in this task, though indirectly, because A.G. Spalding was actively out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De Hass Robison, Christopher Von der Abe, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050466 | Francis C. Richter, editor of "Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the task in an advisory capacity. The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some opposition; indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time that a twelve-club league, which was the object sought, was cumbersome and unwieldy, but there was no other plan of possible | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050467 | accomplishment which suggested itself. But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in this consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be divided, share and share alike, so far as general admissions were concerned. That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the history of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed guarantee | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050468 | for each game played had given each home club a stupendous bulk of the sums paid by the public toward the maintenance of the sport. The inevitable outcome of such an arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities completely overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities. The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050469 | to place rival organizations on the field that would equal in playing strength those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they were unable to do so unless their owners were willing to go on year after year with large deficits staring them in the face. When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball upon a plane | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050470 | of absolute fairness, so far as the proper distribution of the returns of the sport could be made between clubs, Base Ball began to prosper, and, for the first time in all its history, the owners of so-called smaller clubs felt that they could go forward and try to rival their bigger fellows with equally strong combinations. More than that, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050471 | and which to the ball player is most important of all, it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller clubs until they were on equal terms with their fellow players in the larger clubs, so that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this plan the very aim which he had at heart when he proposed the classification plan--a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050472 | just, impartial and equal reimbursement to every player in the game, so far as the finances of each club would permit--and without that bane to all players, a salary limit. Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive more than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is now a fact that two-thirds of the major | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050473 | league ball players of the present day owe their handsome salaries to the system which John T. Brush so earnestly urged and for which he fought against odds which would have daunted a man with less fixity of purpose. Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was so just that its results almost immediately began to make | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050474 | themselves manifest, the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his time and his energies to the endeavor to place a championship club in Cincinnati. He never was successful in that purpose, although his ill fortune was no greater than that of his predecessors. The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball Club could be purchased. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050475 | He obtained the stock necessary to make him owner of the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, but before he did so another Base Ball war had begun between the National League and the American League, a disagreement starting from the simplest of causes, but which, like many another such disagreement, resulted in the most damaging of conditions to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050476 | the prosperity of the pastime. As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the organization of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly for his rights. Prominent National League players were taken by the American League clubs, and this brought retaliation. At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain certain American League players and succeeded | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050477 | in doing so. Among these were the manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who felt that he was acting perfectly within his rights in joining the New York National League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the management of the New York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the era of prosperity was inaugurated in New York, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050478 | which was soon enjoyed by every club throughout the United States. In its first year under the new management the team was not in condition to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and since then has won four National League championships and one World's Championship. In the spring of , at the very dawn of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050479 | the National League season, the grand stand of the New York National League club burned to the ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by such a blow. Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet quenched, Mr. Brush sent for engineers to devise plans for the magnificent stadium which bears his name and which, on the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050480 | Polo Grounds in New York, is one of the greatest and the most massive monument to professional Base Ball in the world. In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and stone, which is one of the wonders of the new world, it is appropriate to add that two world's series have been played on the field of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050481 | Polo Grounds since it has been erected. The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted upon the suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a regular world's series season has been a feature of Base Ball the national game has progressed with even greater strides than was the case in the past. At a meeting | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050482 | of the National League the following resolutions were adopted: _Whereas_, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the New York National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to organized professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his associates in the National League. As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise counsel, his unerring | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050483 | judgment, his fighting qualities and withal his eminent fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the national game will be surely missed. He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and of correct business principles, and his death is not only a grievous loss to us, but to the community at large as | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050484 | well. Be it, therefore, _Resolved_, That the members of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their profound grief at the loss of their friend, associate and counsellor and extend to the members of his bereaved family their sincere sympathy in the great loss which they have sustained by his death. Be it further _Resolved_, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050485 | That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the records of the league. In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, president of the American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in Base Ball. He will be missed as much in the American League as in the National League." More than three hundred friends, relatives, business | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050486 | acquaintances, lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November , at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base Ball associates and acquaintances, principally from the East, were present. The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul's, and was followed by a Scottish Rite | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050487 | ceremony in charge of William Geake, Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and official head of the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish Rite delegation numbered more than . There were also in attendance fifty Knights Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the leadership of Eminent Commander E.J. Scoonover. The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050488 | and a number of local and out-of-town clubs and social organizations of which Mr. Brush was a member also were represented. The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr. Brown, in reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of the remarkable men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise of being in later | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050489 | life a national figure. In the course of his remarks Dr. Brown said: "The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of the most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a typical American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and died a figure of national importance. "He went through the Civil War | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050490 | so quietly that the fact was unknown to some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out with honor and entered the business world in Indianapolis. His labors here put him at the forefront for sagacity, squareness, honorable treatment and generosity. "His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a perfectly natural way, he | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050491 | went from manager of the local team to proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by the consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and colossal financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between New York and Boston were | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050492 | but the legitimate outcome of his marvelous skill. "He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his Blue Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his attachment he never removed his membership. Where he had been raised to the sublime degree of a master there he wished to keep his affiliation always. "He became a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050493 | Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of its past eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite bodies in the Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and performed his work with a ritual perfection unsurpassed. He received the thirty-third and last degree as a merited honor for proficiency and zeal. "The conspicuous feature of his | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050494 | life was its indomitable purpose." THE WORLD'S SERIES OF BY JOHN B. FOSTER. No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or spectator, who went through the world's series of ever will forget it. There never was another like it. Years may elapse before there shall be a similar series and it may be that the next to come will be | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050495 | equally sensational, perhaps more so. Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series. From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050496 | series crammed with thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and hysteria, dejection and wild exultation, recrimination and adoration, excuse and condemnation, and therefore it was what may cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base Ball. There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators out of their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them to wish | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050497 | to sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. There were stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india rubber and others in which they shriveled like parchment which has been dried. There were catches of fly balls which were superhuman and muffs of fly balls which were "superawful." There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050498 | change the outcome of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for other beautiful long hits which were not made. No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man, no cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have originated a finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive contest. Apparently on the verge of losing | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000050499 | the series after the Saturday game in Boston the Giants had gamely fought their way to a tie with Boston, and it was one of the pluckiest and gamest fights ever seen in a similar series, and just as the golden apple seemed about to drop into the hands of the New York players they missed it because Dame Fortune | 60 | gutenberg |
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