The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-30
George Dewey Tells Anecdotes
of Great Hitter
Former Paducah Player Who Has
Broken Into Magnate Glass
Owns Boston.
WELL EQUIPPED FOR SPORT.


Boston National League club. is well
fitted for his new position II past ex-
perience counts for anything. Not
only has Dewey actual experience as
a bali player in professional COM
pany. but he also knows a thing or
two about dealing with players in a
financial way, and his connection
with the street car building company
has given him an excellent insight
into the financial side of the baseball
game in geneuaA With these adyant-
a yes he starts out as we'll equipped
as any of the owners who have brok-
en- into the game in recent years.
Both George Dewey and his brother
William, the latter now the secretary
Of the Boston CLUB, know baseball
from a players point of view. Both
Played with the Paducah club back
In the time when Chris Won der Ahe
was winning pennants with the
Browns under the management OF
Charles Comiskey. George did not
stay with the game as long as his
brother, as he remained behind in
Louisville in order to take care OF
the coal business the two were inter
ested in. William, or as he was more
familiarly known, BILL" played with
the Browns, and in his day he was
a high-class infelder
George might also have played in St
Louis, but of that later on.
George was mixed up in baseball
deals as far back as the Brotherhood
days. and If the two leagues ever go
to war again Dewey should be one OF
the National League war cabinet.
Dewey knew Pete Browning, the
one-time famous batsman. wen, and
when the war was on between the
two big leagues and the brotherhood,
Dewey was the one the scouts secured
to introduce them to Browning. Dow
ey says that Browning was the most
peculiar BALI player he ever had
dealings with.
BrOwning's Bats.
Talk about Jesse Burkett being a
crank" says Dewey, "why, he is not
IN the same class that Browning was.
| remember one time when we went
around to sign him up We found him
in the kitchen. We sat there and tallS-
Cd baseball for about an hour. when
Pete insisted that We move to the
basement The basement looked like
a cave and from the ceiling hung
more baseball bats than 1 have ever
seen before or since Not only this,
but around in the corners of the
room were other bats standing
against the wall. Browning knew
the history of every one of these bats
and. bringing down one from the
ceiling, he would say:
" This is the one l put the bali
over the fence with at Chicago.
Going along the line he would tell
you the record of every bat in the lot.
Some had made particularly long hits,
while others had won games. Those
in the corners were the ones he had
discarded, and he would ten you that
certain bats we're only good to make
fouls or pop flies, and nothing would
alter his opinion that the bats pos.
.sessed certain virtues of their own,
unaffected by the player handling
them
Browning was a lanky youngstei
when he first broke into the game as
Ia pitcher. He always could hit MkC
a house afire and pretty soon ne wac
shifted into the infeld. He played
around the infield for awhile, but
was never shining success, though
he imagined he was a star. Finally
he was shifted to the outfeld, though
1t almost broke his heart at first
After he got used to the Quilted yor
could not get him to think there wa
any other place on the team as good
He was great fielder and they coulC
not come too hard or go too far TO
him. At bat he was a terror to tn
pitchers, as he was liable to breal
Q game up any minute with a ions
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