SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
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Major CeagueT Bai&alf Teams
to Strengten Weak Spots.
MINOR LEAGUES LOOK RIPE.
(treat Number : of Premising Bait
Player In West and South Ara
Likely t Be Either Purehatad ar
Drafted During the Coming Fall,
While the baseball seasou of 1908 la
scarcely half over, the various teams In
tba blf leagues ire beginning to send
oat their scouts for new players with
whom to strengthen their teams.
There Is hardly one of the sixteen
oiubs which Is willing to stand pat, and
la the majority of cases the clubs are
anxious to land promising young play
ers for the remainder of the season. ,
An Important feature about this hunt
for players Is that the attention of
practically all the scouts is centered
on a sextet of players," all of whom
are playing ball in the west So many
of the western players that have been
tried out by the big league clubs hare
made good that the scouts have ap
parently decided that the best of the
minors are to be found there.
The young players who attracted the
attention of the scouts thus far are
Pitcher Bonmr and Inflelder Nlehof of
Des Moines, Pitcher Fitzgerald and In
fielder Patterson of Pueblo and Pitcher
Bono and Inflelder Gagner of Lincoln.
Aside from Marquard, signed by the
New York Nationals, Bomar appears to
be the one most sought after. It Is
said that while he was pitching for
the Decatur club In the Three I league
last year he won twenty-one games.
The beet portion of the youngsters
who come from the south are not stick
ing, but many of them are delivering
more than their share of the goods.
This season's count finds Sid Smith,
Willjfim, Ball, Ats, Manuel, Graham
ami others not only holding their own,
but ranked as stars around the major
circuit. , .- .
While nothing but a guess can be
delivered thus far In advance, the
dope would Indicate that the 1906 crop
from the Southern league" will run
about as follows, listing the players
who are practically sure to go up:
Atlanta Ford, Castle ton and Jordan,
with a chance that Moran and Becker
nay be Included. ; -
New Orleans Lord and Bartiey back
to Philadelphia. Byaa has ; already
gone to Cleveland. ' ,.,
Nashville McElveen, almost to a
oertalnty; "Hunter to Brooklyn; Bay
te Cleveland If be goes good the rest of
the year; Daubert likewise; a chance
that Hub Perdue will be lifted if he
can only hold his present clip.
Little Rock Speaker to a certainty.
A chance that Buchanan and Collins
will be tried out
Memphis Chappelle looks good for a
trial, while Frank Owen is practically
another certainty, as he Is undoubtedly
one of . the best backstoppers In the
league. Cranston Is the only man on
the Infield with a chance. , ,
Birmingham Mack Robinson, pos
sibly Raub. '
Montgomery Pepe had a great show
If he had only taken care of himself.
Persons started out as if he intended
to leave the league, but hasn't been
doing so well of late. Hub Hart, may
revert back to the Sox.
Mobile Fisher figures that Benson
will go up at least, ... .
Then isn't any doubt from our low
ly viewpoint that Owens Is the best
backstopper In the league by a couple
of laps; t Ford, Castleton, Robinson,
Chappelle, Perdue' and Ryan, not over
looking Bartiey, the best pitchers. Jor
dan is the best second baseman on
Dixie's map, but so far as we have
seen there are no Balls or Jakey Atzes
on tap around the circuits. McDonald
has the third sack overshadowed by a
block, while Speaker and Lord have
the call over any outfielders we have
seen up to date. Every one of these
earnest athletes should make good un
der the big tent or the bulk of them
at least
All of the clubs that are after play
ers are paying more attention to
pitchers than any other department
The majority of the scouting which
has been made public thus far has
been done by American league teams.
The Cleveland Americans have been
traveling In such hard luck of late in
the matter of injuries that th$ club
Is very anxious to land some good ma
terial Since the accident te S to vail
the scouting work has been taken up
by the club In more earnestness than
before! The Chicago Americans are
also anxious to strengthen their team,
which plainly shows that they are far
from feeling confident in their ability
to win the pennant this year. These
are Just two of the clubs that are
known to be on the hunt for ball
tossers, and It is safe to say that all
the others have their eyes on
more of the promising minors.
mm mmn Kmzzx
flighty it Utile AmeHe Pttehee
. . . Promises te Be 6od.
1 he trouble baseball managers have
had with Mr. Charles Edward Wad
dell, better known, as '"Rube," would
fill too many books to enumerate. Con
nie Mack of the Philadelphia Amerl
cans bad all he could stand, and this
season the St Louis American field
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generals have been staying awake
o' nights to try to hit on some scheme
to keep Rube within bounds.
Rube's latest escapade was to desert
the team to go shooting water snakes
with a rifle In Missouri. Whether
water moccasins were the only kTnd of
snakes Rube saw Is not known as yet
However, be has returned to the fold
and has promised not to bother with
snakes of any kind hereafter.
one or
No Mercy For Rowdy Ball Players.
Rowdyism upon a ball field in the
Eastern league Is certainly not going
to get a foothold if President Powers
has his way. and from the string of
punishments he has dealt out the play
ers In this organization must feel that
he means business. Owing to the mix
up at Jersey City, In which Umpire
Murray became Involved1 with Pitcher
Brown and Fielder Mertes of the To
ronto club, Brown was suspended for
three days and fined $10, and Mertes
was fined $25. The Umpire Moran
Pitcher Dessau-Manager . Dunn wran
gle has co?t Umpire Moran his posi
tion as an umpire, the Indefinite sus
pension of Dessau and a fine of 25 for
Manager Dunn,
LEEVER'S GREAT RECORD.
Pittsburg's Veteran One of the Most
Consistent Twiriere In League.
For consistency In the pitching line
no one has anything on veteran Sam
Leever of the Pittsburg Nationals.
The fans may some day cease talk
ing about "Lucky Leever" and give
that veteran credit for being what be
is one of the greatest twlrlers the
game has ever known. Look over the
records, and yon will discover that It
is. mighty hard to find a man " with a
record as good as that of the former
schoolmaster. ' .
This Is Leever'a eleventh season wltr
the Pittsburg baseball team. Ho
Joined .the Buccaneers In 1888. but had
sore arafand pitched but a single
game, which he won. He went back
to Richmond, from which team he lad
been secured by the Pirates, and re
mained there until the next spring,
when he again Joined the Pirates and
has been a Pittsburg twirler ever
since. He Is the only player now on
the team who was with Pittsburg
prior to the coming of President Drey
fuss and the consolidation of the Colo
nels and the Buccaneers.
Leever .has . a record that cannot be
duplicated that of winning almost
two-thirds of his games every season
he has been in the league. ' His aver
age since he Joined the Pirates up to
the beginning of the present season is
.661, he having won 164 games and
lost 8L
NO COLLEGIANS FOR DOVEY.
Amine
famFof! Chicago and Hayesof
New York at Olympics.
ALMOST UNKNOWN BEFORE
Boston's Owner Partial to Ball Players
Graduated From Lots.
"College players? Not for mine.
Give me the boys from the lots the
chaps who know that they must either
make good In baseball or go back to
carrying the bod," said Major George
B. Dovey, Boston's owner. "These col
lege fellows are only In the game as
an alternative for pulling teeth or do
ing civil engineering. They don't have
to play baseball, and they know It
So it's the boy from the lots for mine.
Don't see any rah-rah boys on my
team, do you?"
Major Dovey, unlike his fellow mag
nates In the National league, has not.
gone Into the gate receipts of 1908 to
make opulent the exchequer of various
minor league clubs which are supposed
to possess talent of superlative merit
"I haven't an option or even a hot
tip on any bush league wonders," said
the king of the Doves. "And I'm not
accumulating a sinking fund to be In
vested for the benefit of the needy
bush leaguers later In the season
either. Of course I will try to improve
my team for next season, but It will
not be by lining up a string of rook
ies so long that I'll have to number
fhom in order to be able to designate
them when I want them.
"Last spring we went south with
twenty men. My instructions to them
were brief and to the point JEvery
one of you fellows is a regular,' 1
told 'em. 'Now pitch in and do the
best you know how.' Of that entire
bunch Youpg Pfeiffer and one other, I
believe, are the only ones I've kissed
goodby. I don't expect to have a lar
i?er..army next spring, but. I do expect
the results to be qujte as satisfactory
as those obtained by clubs having thir
ty "or more men out for spring prac
tice.";' ;.' :V:;-' "v.- -;
Barrett Has Eye on Ball.
Jimmy Barrett who was released b.v
the Boston Americans as a back num
ber, Is playing great ball for Provi
dence and batting nearly .300.
Those Qallant
British Lion
Away With
Field Prises.
Yankee Lads Bearded
In His Den and Get
Troaeured Traok and
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Every one of oar modern Olympiads
has furnished the opportunity for some
young American athlete hitherto un
known among the world's champions
to spring a tremendous surprise and
In a single hour leap from obscurity to
the proud position of Olympic cham
plon. M:",i;;ri';!v
Way back In 1806 at Athena Robert
Garrett of Princeton competed In the
discus throw, though be had never
en a Greek saucer before. To the
surprise and dismay of the throng of
ureeks gathered in the stadium, Gar
rett hurled the discus forcefully tf not
gracefully and beat their champion out
by a few Inches. .
At St Louts In 1904 Jim Llgbtbody
or Chicago was the unheard of one to
Jump into the limelight Before this
meet Llgbtbody, on his own admission.
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om t. sunt, who won suninc suon.
had never run a half milt faster than
mlnntes 8 seconds, yet be cleaned up
th 800 meter championship In 1 min
ute 6d seconds after one of the most
grueling races ever seen In any coun
try. Besides this, Llgbtbody won
the 8,300 meter steeplechase and the
L000 meter run.
Paul Pilgrim of New York was the
sensation of the Athens Olympiad In
1808. Paul went to Greece a good sec
ond rater and trimmed the world's best
middlstancers twice in a stylo that
dumfounded the athletic world.
The London games Just finished fur
nished two as great surprises aa any
of them In little Frank Irons of the
Chicago Athletic association, who won
the broad Jump with a marvelous leap
of 24 feet 6Vi Inches, and John J.
Hayes of New York, who won the
twenty-six mile Marathon race. Al
most all known about Irons was that
he won a high Jump at the Pastime
A. C. sports In New York last winter
with an actual leap of 8 feet Enjoy
ing a small handicap. Irons took the
event quite easily. Therefore we put
him down as a first rate high Jumper
that's all.
When the news came from London
that Irons had made such a wonderful
leap in the long Jump it seemed unbe
lievable. Irons, though looked upon as
a 10 to 1 snot In the high Jump, bad
never been considered for an Instant
In the long Jump, and bis triumph wss
without a doubt the sensation of the
London Olympiad.
When the details of Irons' great
Jumping feat com ont It will probably
be the same old story Mike Murphy.
One of Mike's specialties Is develop
ing a man to fill a gap In his team
on short notice, and It looks as if he
has done this with the little western
high Jumper.
Hayes had never done very much on
this side either. He trained for the
Marathon race on the top of a New
York department store.
Five Hits For Twelve Bsees.
.Ote Johnson, the "wooden shoe" lad,
who covers the keystone sack for the
Portland (Ore.) club, certainly did some
damage with his willow recently at
Los Angeles. In five trips to the plate
the husky Swede lambasted the horse
bide for a four sacker, a three bagger,
a couple of doubles and for measure
sandwiched in a single, making five
hits for a total of twelve bases, which
Is going some In any man's league.
This Is the star batting feat of the sea
son, and it will be some time before an
other player lines out five safeties In a
single game, not to mention rolling up
a total of a down bases for this num
ber of safe swats.
New Four Track Circuit.
Curley Brown the western horse
man and the builder of the City Park
track at New Orleans, makes the an
nouncement that a four track circuit
Is planned in the south to replace the
tracks at the Crescent City. Brown
says that a number of capitalists of
Cincinnati are the financial backers of
the circuit and that it will be ready
before the snow files. The tracks will
be situated at Norfolk," Va.; Charleston,
S. C; Jacksonville. Fla., and- Savan
nah, Ga. In addition to these four,
horsemen will be : able to "race at
Tampa. Fla., as they did last season.
Manager McCloskey of the St Louis
Nationals has looked the Western
league over and has secured options on
several Omaha Inflelders.
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