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Left Field is Regarded
as Harder Than Right
Ball Players Agree That Center Field
Is Easiest Spot in "the
t . Garden.
While the Pittsburg Pirates were at
Hot Springs a discussion: was started
as to which of the three outfield po
sitions was hardest to play. Manager
Clark argued that the left fielder had
the most difficult garden, while Otis
Clymer thought the hardest work fell
to the right fielder,, both agreeing that
the center position was at all times
the easiest of the three. Along this
line, the following from the pen of
Jack Ryder, the Cincinnati scribe, is
interesting:
"Among outfielders the left Btatlon
is generally rated as the most diffi
cult to play; that is, when the sun
field is not taken into consideration.
The reason for this is that left-handed
batters, when they hit to left at all,
drive, out balls that are harder . to
handle than any other variety sent to
the gardens. When a southpaw hit
ter cuts one to left, there is a peculiar
twist on the ball which often, if it is
hit hard, causes it to take a peculiar
dive or shoot. Such a ball is not only
difficult to Judge accurately, but It
comes to the fielder dead and hard to
hold. A left fielder must have a good
pair of hands to negotiate such
catches, as the ball has a tendency
to break and twist out of the glove,
and must be grasped firmly.
line drives close to the left
foul line, especially those hit by a left
hand batter, are the hardest balls to
field that are sent to any of the gar
dens. It is strange, but true, that a
right-hand batter hitting to right field
does not Impart this peculiar twist
to the ball, and this makes It a shade
easier to play right field than left.
Center field is the easiest of the three
posLtlons, for a ball hit in that direc
tion has been met fair and square
by the bat and sails out on a pretty
straight course, with no disconcerting
changes in its direction. The middle
' fielder has more ground to cover than
either pf his companions, but his
catches are comparatively easy."
Of course where there are sun-fields,
that alters the . argument altogether.
Both left fields In St. Louis are noto-
. rlously hard to play on account of the
fact that the sun blazes right down
into the fielder's eyes. Few fans have
much idea of the strain on a man
who is compelled to play like that day
after day, and due allowance should
be made for him if his batting falls
off under the strain. A sun-fielder is
-compelled to wear smoked. glasses In
order to see the ball at all, and the
effect of putting these on and taking
them off many times during an after
noon is bound to dim the keenness of
his optics.
A Conscientious Umpire.
Tommy Connolly, the referee, is one
of the most conscientious men in base
ball. Connolly is a devout Catholic,
atteuds mass every day, and there
are those who Insist he missed his
calling' when he. became an umpire;
that he should have entered the priest
hood, Connolly Is a favorite with the
players throughout the country.
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Many Famous Players
Started as Pitchers
Star Ball Tosscrs Who Began Game
In Different Positions in Which
They Made Good.
Has the baseball fan ever stopped
to consider how many ups and downs
the present day stars experienced be
for . they found a position for which
they were actually fitted? This has
been the case particularly with men
who were pitchers and either lost
their cunning as sjab artists .or were
not strong enough to keep up with the
rest of the crowd. One could name
probably half a hundred men who are
stars- at the present time who were
once pitchers or catchers.
Let us start with Willie Keeler. It
may not he generally known that
Keeler began his career on the dia
mond as a pitcher. In those days he
played with amateur and seml.profes
sional teams in Brooklyn and other
Long Island places. Even when Keel
er broke into fast company he Btarted
as a third baseman. New York had
him and could do nothing with him,
Then Brooklyn had a crack at this
present-day star. But it was not until
he reached Baltimore that his real
value developed. He was placed in
right field, and from then until the
present day he ranged first in that
position.
Kid Gleason will be remembered as
a pitcher. . Then he came to New
York and developed into one of the
best fielding . second basemen in the
major league.
Callahan, who is playing independ
ent baseball in Chicago, was once a
great pitcher. There is Isbell. He
ranked high as a twirler until a few
years ago. Then he turned to infield
work, and is a very valuable man at
either first or second.
Remember how Cy Seymour used to
whip 'em over at the Polo grounds?
But at his best he was erratic. Still,
he was valuable as a hitter, and when
he left New York he was placed in
the infield. At present there are few
men who are his equal in fielding oi
hitting. .
Bresnahan began as a pitcher, first
in Chicago and then in Baltimore. To
day he is a very valuable man behind
the bat. Indeed, he is good in any
position when a team Is in a pinch.
Frank Chance, a catcher, developed
into a star first baseman. And it may
not be generally known that Mike
Doplin broke into baseball as a pitch
er. He came to St. Louis from Cali
fornia,
Then there is Bobby Wallace. He
was the Clevelands' greatest pitcher
in the early '90's. He was and is yet
a great (nfielder. Hal Chase who has
no equal as a first baseman, was a
pitcher for a time.
Danny Hoffman was a pitcher in
tne uonnecucui league, ana so was
Pat Dougherty.
Fares Will Cut Into Profits.
Railroad rate regulations will cut
into the profit of the league baseball
clubs this season. The various clubs
travel about 200,000 miles in a' year,
spending $70,000. Formerly the clubs
were allowed special rates,, which
meant a saving of from a quarter to a
half of the regular fare.
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RIOT AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Strike Breakers and Sympathizers
Clash With Fatal Results.
The strike of the 1,700 union motor-
men and conductors or tne united
Railroads at San Francisco developed
into a riot May 7th in which more than
a score of persons were severely hurt,
some being fatally-wounded.
At 2:30 o'clock the company made
its first attempt to resume the oper
ation of its system by sending out
seven passenger cars manned by be
tween thirty and forty strike-breakers,
wearing the uniform of inspectors, and
each carrying a 38-callbre revolver
strapped ' around his waist outside of
his coat. The start was made from
the company's barns at Turk and Fill
more streets, where a crowd of from
three to five thousand men and boys
had gathered. '
Twenty-seven policemen, five mount
ed officers and several sergeants un
der the command of CaptsRn Moorey,
were on patrol guard. The appearance
of the cars in Fillmore street, from
which they were switched into Turk
street, was the signal for an imme
diate outburst of jeers and howls. Be
fore the cars had gone one block they
were made the targets of stones and
bricks. In a few moments every pane
of glass had been smashed, and sev
eral of the armed operatives had been
struck, cut and bruised. At Turk and
Buchanan streets an especially fierce
attack was made on the foremost car.
YOUTHS HOLD UP A TRAIN.
Kill
Engineer and Wound Fireman
and Then Escape.
A dispatch to Sheriff Shoemaker at
Helena, Mont, says the train robbers
of the north coast limited were arrest
ed at Basin, a few miles from Wood
vllle,. where they caught;' the train.
They are mere youths.
The north coast limited eastbound
train, No. 22 'on the Northern Pacific
railway, was held up' by two masked
men near Welch's spur, a siding eigh
teen miles east of Butte, Mont, En
gineer James Clow was shot and killed
and Fireman James Sullivan was shot
through the arm. . Without making an
attempt to blow up the express car, as
was evidently intended, the robbers
jumped from' the engine and ran down
the mountain side, disappearing in a
gulch several hundred yards from the
track. ' ,
" Sheriff Henderson of Butte was no
tified, and with a posse left on a train
for the scene of the holdup. Sheriff
Webb of Yellowstone county was on
the train and. with one of the train
crew started on the trail of the hold
up men five minutes after the shoot
ing. He trailed the men half a mile
and after picking up their masks lost
all track of the bandits.
SPRIGHTLY THREE-YTAR-OLD.
Bill Maupin's "Wageworker" has
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successfully weathered the storm pf
the third anniversary on the turbu
lent sea of trades-union journalism.
and Bill is being , congratulated all
along the line on his prosperity. May
the "Wageworker" and Old Man Bill
always be at the flood tide. Easton
(Pa.) Journal.'
A WEAK DEFENSE
Former Warm Supporter of President
Scores His Last Letter.
President Roosevelt answered the
bombardment he received - from the
press of the country for classing Debs,
Moyer and THeywood as "undesirable
citizens." We consider his defense
of that unpjrovoked attack the weak
est statement .he ever issued from the
White House. When Harriman's let
ter uncovered a yellow streak in the
president he ran off like a mad bull
and niade a fool of himself in a fit of
rage. Now he is trying to square him
self by standing pat. Nothing the pres
ident has ever done has brought forth
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such a unanimous, hut respectful, pro
test from the labor press of the coun
try, and numerous newspapers have
condemned him for that bad break.
We are sorry the president lost his
head in the first place when he wrote
that hothead statement, and we are
now disappointed to learn that he is
not big enough to rectify a mistake,
but tries to square himself with a sec
ond letter- that is as bad '-as the first.
This is the first time the Laborer has
criticized the president, and we, too,
are extremely indifferent as to wheth
er he likes it or not. It goes!
Omaha Laborer. , , ,
UNION LABOR WINS.
One
Federal Judge Gets Off on the
. : " Right Foot Once.
A jje&n victory forS union labor is
to tSjfound in the decision handed
down on April 1 .by .Federal Judge A.
M. 'J. Cochran, in the Pnited States
court. Covington, Ky., in the case of
William Adair, . master, mechanic of
the L-- &. N. railroad. The blacklist
era and other enemies of fair labor
would do well to sit up and take no
tice.
. The Federal Grand, Jury' in Coving
ton last fall indicted - Adair on two
counts for discriminating against and
discharging O. B. Coppage, a fireman
on the road and a member of the Or
der of Locomotive Firemen.
The Indictment was brought under
an act of congress providing -a fine
of from $100 to $1,000, -and prohibit
ing a common carrier ifrom requiring
an employe to enter an agreement not
to join a labor union, to threaten an
employe with discharge if he so joins,
to compel emplyes to contribute to
any charitable fund or to prevent any
employe discharged from securing em
ployment." Y-- j
The defendant demurred by attack
ing the constitutionality of the act of
congress. Defendant alleged that it
was a meddling in affairs between
master and servant; ' that the em
ployer was not engaged in interstate
commerce, and that it was class legis
lation in that it denied to non-union
labor the equal protection of the law.
Judge Cochran - decided otherwise,
holding the act of congress to be con
stitutional and that Coppage was en
gaged in .interstate commerce, stating
that employes of the' road were ad
juncts to interstate commerce.- Balti
more Labor Leader. ' , '
DONNELLEY RESIGNS.
President of Butcher Workmen's
ion Steps Down and Out.
Un
Friends of Michael Donnelly, presi
dent of the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butchers Workmen, will re
gret to hear that he has resigned and
in the future will hold no office in the
organization. Donnelly's decision was
reached at a meeting of the executive
board last week in Syracuse, N. Y.
where the headquarters of the organ
ization are located. He will go back
to work at his trade as a sheep butch
er without any money, but with the
satisfaction of knowing that no one
can point a finger at him and ask
"Where did he get it?" The "$5,000
mansion," which some of his "friends'
said he was building after the strike,
has dwindled down to a little flat for
which be pays rent. It may be that
for practical reasons the judgment of
Donnelly's colleagues that better re
sults can be obtained with another
man at the head of the organization,
may be good, but the labor movement
stands in need of men with as high
ideals and as honest purposes as' Don
uelly has. His successor as presi
dent is Edward W. Potter of Utica
N. Y., a man who is well qualified to
fill the office and who , Is probably
the onlyj man on the executive board
tnat uonneiiy would nave resigned to
make room for. Exchange.
QUITE A DIFFERENCE.
Kansas'. Labor Commissioner Not Llke
, the Nebraska Man. -There
is just as much difference be
tween state labor commissioners as
there is betweenkany other men. And
there Is an especially wide difference
between ' the labor cdmmisloner of
Nebraska and the labor commissioner
of Kansas. The Kansas man was ap
pointed ' because he knew the . labor
movement and learned it 1 from ex
perience.'' His name is W. S. A. John
son. The hodcarriers and building la
borers of Hutchinson wanted to organ
ize and wrote to Commissioner John
son for information.' He told them to
write a letter applying for. a charter
and send it to him with the charter
fee of $10 and he would do the rest.
The men did . so, and then Commis
sioner Johnson sat down and wrote
the following letter to President Stem-
burgh at Syracuse, flew York:
Dear Mr. Stemburgh Please . find
enclosed a letter which is an applica
tion for a charter, signed by Mr. A.
L. Pangbora as president, Mr. More
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THE LABOR SMEK l
Why not let gas do most 0$ your bitch:
en Work? It toill carruuour coal, split
your kindling, carry out your ashes,
keep your walls and floors clean With
out continual scrubbing, and is altoays
ready to toork. We haoe a full line of
ranges.
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as secretary, ,E. Cooper as treasurer,
-and eight others from - Hutchinson, -Kans.,
together with a draft for- $10
less exchange.' You will see that these ,
boys are all right and I can approve
their application, and when you send
them - the charter and , supplies ad vise -;
me, and I will either go and organize
them or . will " authorize some good
union man in Hutchinson to -do so.
Hoping that this will meet with
your approval and earliest-consideration,
I am, Yours fraternally,
W. S. .A. JOHNSON,
i , ... v Commissioner of Labor.' -That
is the kind of -a state labor
commissioner to have Nebraska has
'not got one; The only thing we ever v
heard of the Nebraska coromisioner -doing
was to write a threatening let
ter to a member of the legislature, de- '
ciaring he would expose that member
in some wicked doings If he didn't quit
trying to kill ' the commissioner's sal
ary appropriation. . The Kansas job is
looked upon as being one in the inter
ests of labor. ' The Nebraska ' job s
a machine politician.
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