The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-14

shortstop. who afterward played with
a big league nine.
Murphy was what the boys called.
as big as a pint OF peanuts, and be-
side Carter he looked like a little lad
IN primary school. No. the baseball
man is between 5 and feet tall and
between 140 and 200 pounds. big. slim
and stociy, fat and thin, all kinds and
conditions. Barring him. we are able
to tell with profit to the man and to
the athletics of the university. whether
a student will be most successful as a
football player, a track man. crew
man or a egymnast"
And this man was correct. While a
small man may be at digadvantara
in other sports, football or rowing
for instance, his size may be his best
asset In the national game.
Look at the men playing in the big
leagues today:
Starting at third base. go over them
The smallest is. probably. Jap Bar
beau. recently OF Pittsburg; Bobby"
Byrne, "Bill" PurteIl, the child ath-
lete" Of the Chicago White Sox, and
Miller Higgins, OF the Cincinnati Reds.
All are guarding the difficult corner in
spite OF their size, which does NOT
handicap them in the least. In great
contrast to these men are ''Bill'' Brad
ley. OF the Cleveland Maps, who until
few years ago was considered the
peer of them all; Devlin of the Giants
and Steinfeldt, Of the worlds cham
pions. all Hsix-footers." Among the
small men at the shortstop position
are Jay" Coffey, Of the Doves; ITO
basco Kid" Elberfeld, of the New
York Highlanders; "Ownie" Bush. Of
the Detroit Tigers, and Tommy" Nc
MILAN, of the Brooklyn superbas.
'Honus" Wagner, who is a fne model
for hack factory; Lee Tannehfll OF
the Chicago Americans; Mcbride. OF
the Washington Senators, and Long
Jack Knight, the Philadelphia, school
boy with the Highlanders. are all OF
greater stature than the ordinary man
and may be placed in the category Of
giants.
The secondsackers are more uniform
In size. although Johnny Evers, OF the
Chicago Cubs; "Amby" Mcconnell, OF
the Boston Red Sox. and Shorty"
French. OF the same team, are mid
gets, while Larry Laioie. ex-mana4
ger of Cleveland; Red" Kinifer. OF
Detroit and Jimmy" williams. OF the
st. Louis Browns, are big and betty.
All the initial-sackers are tall
Claude Rossman, of Detroit; big Tim"
Jordan Of Brooklyn. and Jake" Stahl
of the Boston Americans, are very big
men, Rossman especially being a giant
in build
Hal" Chase, who is undoubtedly the
greatest first baseman the game has
ever known, is not quite as large as
those mentioned, but is, nevertheless.
a wonder. "Jiggs" Donohue, of the
Washington American team and Fred.
erick Tenney of the Giants, are also
small when compared with the others.
The outfielders are of all sizes. WA
hoo Sam" Crawford, Mike" Donlin.
who is under the control of the Giants:
Oldring, of the Philadelphia Athletics:
Owen Wilson, of the Pirates, and Doc"
White, the pitcher-outfielder of the
White Sox, are each "as big as
house" "Wurra Wurra" O'Hara, of
the Giants; Keeler, of the HlghIanders:
Tommy" Leach, OF the Pirates, and
''Tully Fred Hartsell. of the AthIet-
les, are among the wee ones.
1t is in the batting position that size
seems to have some bearing.
There are any number Of giant twirl-
ers. Falkenberg, of Cleveland, is
spoken of as "the human telegraph
pols," and "Addie" Joss, Of the same
team, is referred to as the human
hairpin,'' but 1t is doubtful If either
OF them has anything on George Nc
Connell, formerly Of the Highlanders,
or Bobby Groom, the Senators Pa
cific coast recruit.
'Collegian" Nourse, the new pitcher
of the Red Sox from Brown university.
is also "some big"
Taken as a whole Detroit, probably,
has the biggest staff of fingers in
either league wild Bill" Donovan,
Ralph Works. "Kickapoo" Summers,
Kiliian, Willetts and Mullin, are all
six footers.
Lefty" Salee, of the Cardinals:
big Six" Mathewson, of the Giants,
and "Jeff'' Overall. of the chesty Chi
cago Cubs, are men whose large frames
help them pitch game after game
injuring themselves.
WARRIOR, the Irish Indian, OF the
Highlanders; his teammate, Pete"
"Heinie" Berger. of the Maps:
Blaine Durbfn, of the Reds" and
Dygert. OF the Athletics. are small
In the backstopping department.
Long Larry" Mclean is the giant,
with CHIEF Myers, OF the New York
Giants, and Sweeney, of the High
landers, close seconds. Ira Thomas, of
the Athletics and Sullivan OF the