The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26

that they are willing to let go for a
hunk OF change are virtually castoffs.
No team was ever yet built up with
sure enough csstoffs. There's a Ger
tain good team that 1 could mention
that is commonly supposed to have
been remade by an uncommonly clever
manager from castotf material, but
when you fail to analysing the fellows
OF the alleged castoff variety of that
club You quickly find that they never
really were castoffs at all.
There are Il whole let of readable
ana entertaining dope stories about
baseball castoffs who have turned
around and dazzled the baseball world.
thereby pouring GOALS of fire and a lot
OF molten lead and blazing oil upon
the conks of the folks that nave turned
them loose. But you want to take
these mop narratives with all the pepsin
and m your system Fan stand,
There are plenty of cases where cast
otis-chronic. all-in castoffs, 1 mean
VINO We done remarkable things for a
little while, but none of them tina I
ever heard of has lasted for any great
length of time. I'm not referring to
castofs who've been turned loose from
one or Two clubs, maybe without hav-
CASTOR I'm talking about is the man
VINO has been in the game for a good
many years, who has worn his edge
away, and who, knowing this, begins to
sulk on the bench. Such a man may
upon nelns transferred to a new and
congenial outfit buck up and show
flashes OF mis- old time form for a lit
tie way, but he doesn't go the dis
lance.
THE baseball business. in brief, has
now settled down to sue a bedrock
basis that the crack players of a club
arc simply non-transferable assets.
Every good player who is at the same
tl1ne a ma OF sense ana good conduc
Is one OF the cogs in the combination.
gun him out and the whole thing coll
lapses. Owners Of ball clubs know all
about this. They're not owning bali
clubs for hygienic reasons, and that's
Why there's no chance to dlcker with
lheln toward coping out their good
men. do you suppose that If I had on
my team certain players that I'd give
a piece OF my left ear to get I'd ever
listen to any proposition looking to
having them taken away?
There are all sorts of poppy tales
going around the baseball world all the
tine about ball players who lay down
on the clubs they work for for the pur-
pose OF paving the way for their trans
Ter to another club that they want to
join. "
You can tin all of that kind of stuff
without looking at it twice. There new
er was a bit of truth lin any of those
yarns since the game was organized.
~ pau payers playing ability is his
one asset. When he permits himself
Tor any reason whatever to go back
IN his work he's simply handing him
sell a personally conducted wallop, and
you've got to show me the ball player
mat 90 tina The bah player ac-
cused of laying down has in every case
that know anything about simply gone
of his form for a spell. He's just los,
ms keen edge for a bit. and this fact
being aiken into account with tho
Knowledge that some other club would
nke TO get such a player the knockers
instantly fix it all up in their minds
ana mouths that the player is LAYING
down with the c~onnivance, they often
add, of the manager of the team that
wants him and that he wants to go