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How to Become a Baseball Pro.
ON PUGlLISM.
BY HUGH 5. FULLERTON

/ brother. He kept right on playing and
that fall he was thrown in with Pit h
eF Hardy, whom Selee bought. At Phil
adelphia, Ink Loves leg gave out,
and Selee wired for EyeTs. the little
! fellow purchased new Derby nat, the
first he ever owned, and boarded tie
train for New York. He never had rid
den so far-and he did not know what
sleeper was, so he sat up all night.
He arrived ia New York City early In
the morning and stood around the For
ty-second street station, waiting FOR the
train for PHI lGdelphia, for hours, until
finally instructed 10 go TO jersey City.
He reached Philadelphia at noon, vi h
out sleep or food. jumped into uni
form and played both ends OF q double
header. He made four errors in the
two games, and then played twenty
three errorless games IN succession.
y
Once uron a time, long. long ago.
was sent on a hurry-up chase up .nto
Minnesota to get a big pitcher. He had
pitched wonderful seai-professional
ball TIE year before. had been signed
TO q contract, and then hesitated about
going that far from home.
I arrived In his home town In the
afternoon and. although the thCrmom-
eters We're freezing, was told 10 walk 4
mile out TO the house. 1t was al least
IS degrees below zero. When I arrived
at the house I found the father OF our
pitcher. who told me his boy was in
the barn, so I ran out there. He was
Inside the barn pitching TO his sister.
who, equipped with a nit made Of
bran and -four sackiug, was back stop
ping in great shape.
It took twcnty-four hours % argu-
ment 10 get that boy away from home,
but he came and he pitched good BAH.
l saw him one day In June a year
later. The day was chilly and damp.
Working today, Rog?" I asked.
'Yes. What do you think of this guy
putin me in day like this. He ought
70 know I'm a hot weather pitcher"
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Fielder Jones, now manager of the
White Stockings. got into fast company
unexpectedly. He was a good ball play
er, but no one knew il, not even HIM
self, and he was content to play in the
Outheld for the semi-pro. team at Hor-
nellsville, n. Y. One day Tom Burns
and his Springfield (Mass) champion
ship team dropped off the train at Hor-
nellsville 10 play an exhibition. Jimmy
Callahan was pitching for Springfield
and he was good. The first time up
Jones raped out HIT. the second time
Callahan tried 10 fool him. but he
cracked out another. The third tine
Jones appeared he poAed a beauty over
short, and the fourth time up Callahan
put on all his steam and curves, but
Jones got another one. He signed a
contract with Springfield after the
game and appeared at the station with
his flannel uniform shirt, a tail crowned
narrow brimmed straw hat. and q
Prince Albert coat. All that year ne
was Farmer" Jones, and then Brook
lyn grabbed him because he led the
Eastern league in hitting.
s.
Barney DTeyfuss is one Of the best
finders of BAH players In the world. He
! KEEPS q little hook in his vest pocket
that has in it the avera ges of about 700
ball players in all parts of the world.
Whenever the figures of q certain man
begin To look promising Barney goes on
a still hunt. He never announces him
self. but watches his man play bail.
He found Hans Wagner by slipping up
TO Homes cad one day and standing up
on a buoy seat outside The grounds 20
watch Hahnus practice. Then he paid
/ admission 10 the game and caDtured
one of the richest finds of baseball
The way Barney found Sammy Lee
| ver YVES odd. Some one tinped It of TO
bin that there was a school teachev
un in southern Ohio who could pitch
and Barney went otter him He landed
AT Goshen, O.. and hGCfed it cUt 70 Il