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CHAPTER XII.

I Lead My Men to Victory. I eh&U always look back on 1880 as the red letter period of my career. It WH the season, under my managers, ment, the Chicago team came home 'with the pennant.

In my opinion, the members of that was one of the greatest bunches of baseball players that ever cast their shadows on the diamond. As it happened, all the league forces that year tone made up of first-class material ifae men under my direction out•classed them all. i. I have had a more or less Intimate iacqualntance with all the crack base!ball teams that have been making •history for the past forty years. I l^on't want to say a word that would .• iseem to imply that I undervalue th« lability of present-day players or over estimate the cleverness of those who ihave been and are no longer: but I !don't mind telling you that, in my .. (opinion, there have been mighty few nines superior to that which held th«

National championship from 1880 to 1883. Unlike the majority of clubs in the ileactw that time, the Chicagos did not depend on the services of one flret class pitcher, but had two, Corcoran And Goldsmith, both top-notchers, •laying them on alternate days. I bad two catchers, also, both of them oraokerjaoks, Flint, who ranked as th« premier artist of his day, and Mike Kelly, who was also invaluable In the field. With Quest on second, .Williamson on third. Burns shortstop and Dalrymple, Oore and Beal In the Held, there was nothing further to be 'desired. I stuck to first base, believing then, as I do still, that it was my stronghold.

Strong at the bat? Well, rather. In 1880 Oore ied the league with an average of .866, I was second with .888, Dalrymple was third with .332 -and Burns was fifth with .309. In folding Williamson led the third basemen with an average of .893, while the fewest hits of the year were made oil Corcoran's pitching. Among the £rot basemen I held second place, with a percentage of .977. Sullivan of the Worcester team was first that year with .982.

Make any money that season? Yes, we made a little, just enough to raise salaries and keep the organization together for the next season. We had the consolation of knowing that we were the only club in the league that made a cent, most of them coming out of the little end of the horn on account of bad management. It began •. to look as If there was money in the game, however, and the club dlrectore were by no means discouraged.

The team that had been such credit to Chicago in 1880 was good

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enough for me, and since the directors left it to my judgment, I made no changes in the nine the next year. That I made no mistake was the verdict of all the fans when we came In with the pennant a second time. As before, our success was due to our strong batting and really great team work. During the entire season we played as one man, having but one object in view—the capture of the championship. Not a man of the nine permitted himself to indulge in an attempt to do record playing, and sacrifice hitting was the order whenever a point could be made In that way.

The race was an unusually exciting one. Rather early in the season it became apparent that the contest between the four leaders might leave the result in doubt until the very last week. It turned out exactly that way and the entire country waited the outcome with bated breath. When the '"en8" caine our record was 56 games won and 28 lost, against our most formidable rival, the Providence team, which won 47 games and lost 37.

Personally, I had every reason to 6mile all over. Once again I led the batting list, with an average of .399, and I stood at the head of the first basemen, with .975 opposite my name.

When the time caire to make up the team for the following season, 1S82, I couldn't for the life of me see any good reason to make a single change. The other clubs in the league, all of them, had but one object In life—to snatch that pennant from my team and me, and I argued that the boys who had kept the championship in Chicago for two seasons would be more likely to repeat the trick than a bunch of fresh ones who were new to me and my ways. So all the other clubs went to their utmost limit in strengthening their teams, but I just left mine as it was.

From start to finish the race that season was a hot one. Honors were so equally divided during most of the summer that the fans were kept guessing and the betting in the pool rooms was something unprecedented. I want to tell you that there wasn't the faintest suspicion of crookedness on the part of a single placer the whole season. As a result of the fierce rivalry between the teams, banner crowds greeted the players everywhere Wherever we appeared that year the bleachers and grandstands were packed to their utmost capacity, and sometimes there was hardly enough room on the grounds to play the game. An era of baseball prosperity had come for sure, and all the clubs were making money.

Again we won. We played 84 games victor in 55 and losers in 29. Again Providence was close at our heels and Buffalo not a great way behind. Bos ton jumped from sixth to fourth and showed signs of returning vitality, My personal record was not so flat tering a3 usual. Brouthers of the Buffalo club headed the batting list with .369, while I came second with .367. When we returned home It seemed as if the entire population of the Windy City had turned out to welcome us. The enthusiasm was so great that nothing was too good for the men who for the third time had made Chicago the baseball center of the universe.

There was just one thing that interfered with my perfect enjoyment of the sltuatlon-~before we set out on that campaign William A. Hulbert, our president and the founder of the league, one of the best friends I ever had either in or out of the profession, passed out of this life. In the midst of the glad hurrah that greeted us on our return it saddened us to remember that the man who had done

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Once more let me say that the secret of the club's success in winning the championship for these three successive years lay In its team work. Added to this was the faot that long practice in studying and perfecting the fine points of the game gave us an enormous advantage over our competitors, who had not yet got onto the value of concerted action. I realized that there was a few weak spots in our make-up, but the general fitness of the team was so good that these blemishes were lost sight of In the general rejoicing. I suppose I shouldn't have realized any outside criticism at the time, and probably wouldn't have appreciated any advice, but as I look back I must admit that I can discover one or two little things which, if recognized and remedied at the time, would probably have given us a more satisfactory start-off than we had the following season.

CHAPTER XIII.

I Take a Tumble With the Boys. If this were a strictly personal account of my life, with the history of baseball in America left out, I might dodge some of the disagreeable things that now and then got sandwiched in between the almost constant smooth sailing that fell to my lot as manager of the banner team of baseball artists in America. One of the things I might escape would be the necessity at explaining to you how it happened that I let Boston get away with the pennant in 1883.

To be frank with you, it has always been more or less of a mystery to me. The only change in our personnel was the substitution of Fred Pfeffer for Joe Quest at second base, and that should have meant additional strength for us. That it didn't turn out that way was no fault of the new man, for he proved himself to be a crackerjack. It is possible that overconfldence may have had something to do with our slump, although we must have been onto the fact that our opponents were after us hot and heavy. From the start it was plain enough that the contest was going to be a battle of the giants and that Chicago, Boston, Providence and Cleveland were the only ones In it. Excitement ran high all over the country and the big newspapers began to devote considerable space to our dally doings on the diamond.

Until about that time baseball had not figured very prominently in the press. Recently on looking over the files of a big New York daily for the year 1880 I was surprised to find so little mention of the game. There was no account of any game played outside New York and Brooklyn, and even those were given very little space—not a third as much as was ta^ ken up by pigeon shooting. In October of that year the Chicagos played with the Metropolitans, and the report of the game does not cover more than three inches. One of the statements in it amused me a whole lot. It was to the effect that when the score stood 4 to 0 in favor of my team we put on our coats and quit, with the excuse that we had to catch a train. I don't recollect anything of the sort. But if

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it actually occurred it goes to prove that the game was a mighty informal thing in those days.

Well, we dropped the pennant in 1883 and Boston got it. Nor was that the bitterest pill I had to swallow. I fell to twelfth place in the batting list, my percentage being only .307. Brouthers stood first, his percentage being .371. It seemed as if the twirlers were getting a little too foxy for my style of hitting. I had been patting myself on the back a long time over my batting career, and to have an experience of this kind was tough.

The big baseball event of that year was the adoption of the code known then as the trlparte agreement, but now termed the national agreement. A. G. Mlils, the new president of the league, was active in promoting it, and it was accepted by the league, the American association and the Northwestern league. Among other things it provided that no contract with any player should be made loneer than aeven months, beginning April 1 and ending October 81. At that time the stealing of players was a growing evil and one that made a heap of trouble. To put a Btop to the practice, it was provided, that on October 10 each year the secretary of each association should furnish the secretaries of the other associations a reserve list ol players, not exceeding fourteen in number, then under contract with each of Its several club members, and of juch

players reserved on any "prior "annual reserve list who had refused to contract with the said club'B members, and of all other eligible players, and such players, together with all others thereafter regularly to be contracted with by 6uch club members, "Are and shall be eligible to contract with any other club members of either association party thereto."

That was a mighty strong doBe, but that it broke up the stealing game there is no denying. Many of the players didn't take kindly to the proposition, however, and there was more kicking over it than there had been over anything else so far. Later on It led to the Brotherhood revolt and a general earthquake in baseball circles. That is why I mention It in this place.

Next year came the Union association fiasco. It was a short-lived affair, but on account of the influence It had on the game It cannot be left out of its history. The season of 1883 had been such a money-maker that Henry V. Lucas, owner of the St. Louis club, believing he saw millions in it, organized his Union association, and its speedy failure brought financial shipwreck to him. The new baseball trust—that Is about what it amounted to—was organized In Pittsburg with a big flourish of trumpets. It was announced that at least fifty leading league players would break their contracts and Join the new venture, but when the time came not a baker's dozen showed up. It was a goose-egg of enormous proportions. Only five of the original clubs played out their schedules, and it gave up the ghost at the olose of its first seaBon.

And all the time the league—which had promptly expelled the deserting players—was having a most exciting and prosperous season. All of the clubs had signed more players than they actually needed In order to keep them out of the reach of the Union association. My ohib had no less than nineteen men on the salary list that season, some of whom were never called on to play. The men In my bunch that did the work were Corcoran, Goldsmith and Clarkson, pitchers Flint and Kelly, catchers Anson, first base Pfeffer, second base Williamson, third base Burns, shortstop and Dalrymple, Gore, Kelly and Sunday In the outfield.

Well, It so happened—how I'll never tell "you—that we got started wrong foot first. At the end of May we were only In fifth place, Boston and Providence being the leaders. By the end of June we had not improved our position and matters were beginning to look rather dubious. Just about that time the Providence boys were playing great ball. Radbourne, their pitcher, was doing some tricks that were sending his club to the top, and It looked a sure thing for Providence If he could keep the pace. In September and October the Chicago folks rallied a little, but, although we won every gaipe we played in the latter month, the best we could do was to beat New York for fourth place. It was a consolation to have Providence jump in ahead of Boston, Iftit you are perfectly correct in supposing that the position occupied by my club at the "close of business did not satisfy A. C. An son.

I realized that some changes In our make-up was necessary. It was one of the hardest duties I had to per form, this weeding out of material that was no longer up to the mark, a job I never got entirely hardened to. Larry Corcoran, who had done such Eplendld servioe for us, was on to the fact that his pitching days were about over, asked for his release and got it. Goldsmith had not been doing work of the first class and he was also sent out Into the cold world. Clarkson and McCormlck, who had played with Cleveland the previous year, and who knew how to rattle the batsmen, were signed as pitchers. I didn't see how I could Improve on the rest of the make-up and I didn't try to.

During the winter of this year the league got into a lively shindy right under Its own roof. The deserting St, Louis club, of which Mr. Lucas had been president, was taken back as penitent, and President Mills was so riled over the matter that he resigned The three offices of president, secretary and treasurer were turned over to Nicholas B. Young. (To be Continued.)

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