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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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choked theGiants rally, but by an odd coincidenceone of the defeated Giants gave Leachshard work lament a terrific jolt. After BASEBALL AS THE PLAYERS SEE IT !5i the last of the crowd had melted away,the players began to emerge. LarryDoyle, the Giants captain, walked witha friend up the long runway to the ele-vated railroad. It was impossible not tooverhear their conversation. Notice Leach this afternoon, Lar-ry? asked the friend. He had a com-plete grouch. Thats funny, laughed Doyle. Whyshould a ball player look peeved? Itsall play—the best kind of play. Id concerned. Collins is a cheery, unassum-ing person. Yet he is gifted with analert bearing and quick mind that wouldhold a first glance and compel the ques-tion, Who is that young fellow? werehe one of a group. When Collins played ball at Colum-bia he asked Clarke Griffith, of the NewYork Americans, and later McGraw, ofthe Giants, for a tryout. They laughedat him. Later he repeated the questionto Connie Mack of the Athletics. To-
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WAGNER DECLARES THAT Photograph by Pant Thomps PLAYING NEVER BECOMES A TASK. rather be out on that field than any-where. And, always smiling, Doyle smiledmore broadly, perhaps thinking of hisbreaker-boy days in an Illinois coal-mine. From many sources come the veryprominent ball players. Lajoie was acabman, Evers a $4-a-week collar-factoryemployee, and Wagner jumped from afreight car to fill his first professionalengagement. Also the colleges have con-tributed. Mathewson studied three yearsat Bucknell, and Eddie Collins, of theAthletics, was given an A.B. by Colum-bia University. It is with star Collins that we are day Griffith and McGraw would payMack well for Collinss release were itpossible to buy him from the AmericanLeague. Like Doyle, Collins looks on baseballas a grand lark. He stakes the lark seri-ously, however, and continually consid-ers its possibilities. Collins is careful tostudy play, players, and teams. For acomparatively young recruit his observa-tions have been made r

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