The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-21

as 4 football player track man, a
crew man or a gymnast."
And this man was correct While a
small man may be at disadvantage
in the other sports, football or row
ing. for instance, his size may be his
best asset In the national game
Look at the men playing In the big
leagues today.
Size Is Asset.
Starting at third base, go over them.
J The smallest is probably Jap" Bar
| beau. Bobby Byrne of the Pirates,
"Blll' Purtcll. the Child athlete" Of
the Chicago White Sox, and Miller
Higgins of the Cincinnati Reds, are
all guarding the difficult corner In
spite of their size, which does not
handicap them in the least In great
contrast to these men are ''BilT' Brad
ley OF the Cleveland maps" who un-
I'll few years ago was considered the
peer OF them all; Devlin OF the Giants,
and Steinfeldt of the Worlds Cham
pions, all "siX-footers" Among the
small men In the shortstop position
are Java Coffey of the Doves, TO
baSco Kid" Elberfeld of the New
York Hlghlanders. "Ownie" Bush of
the Detroit Tigers. and Tommy" Nc
MILAN OF the Brooklyn Superbas. "Ho-
nus Wagner. who is a fine model for
hack factory; Lee" Tannehlll of the
Chicago Americans; Mcbride of the
Washington Senators. and Long Jack"
Knight, the Philadelphia schoolboy
with the Highlanders, are all of great
er stature than the ordinary man, and
may be placed in the category Of
giants.
Second Basement.
The second bascmen are moro uni
form in size. although Johnny Evers
of the Chicago Cubs, "Amby" McCon.
nell OF the Boston Red Sox, and
Shortly" French of the same team,
are mldgets, while Larry" Lajoie. the
slugger of Cleveland "Red" Killifer of
Detroit and Jimmy" Williams of the
st Louis Browns, are big and hefty.
All the initial lsackers are tall
Claude Rossman of Detroit, big Tim"
Jordan of Brooklyn, and Jake" Stahl
of the Boston Americans, arc very big
men, Rossman, especially, being a
giant in build
Hal Chase, who Is undoubtedly
the greatest first baseman the game
has over known. is not quite as large
as those mentioned. but is. neverthe-
less, wonder. "Jiggs" Donohue of
the Washington American team and
Frederick Tenney OF the Giants are
also small when compared with the
others.
Outfielders All Sizes.
The outfelders are OF all sizes. "Wa-
hoo Sam" Crawford, Mike" Donlin.
who Is under the control of the
Giants; Oldrlng of the Philadelphia
Athletics. Owen Wilson of the Pirates
and DOC" White. the pitcher-out-
fielder of the White Sox. are each "as
big as house" ''Wurra Wurra"
O'Harc OF the Giants. Keelev of the
Highlanders, Tommy" Leach of the
Pirates and "Tully Fred" Hartsell of
the Athletics are among the wee ones
II is in the batting position that
size seems to have some bearing.
There arc any number of giant
twirlers Folkenberg Of Cleveland is
spoken of as the human telegraph
pole" and "Addle' Joss of the same
team Is referred to as the human
hairpln," but 1t is doubtful that either
one of them has anything on George
Mcconnell, formerly OF the Highland
ers. or Bobby" Groom. the Senator'S
Pacific Coast recruit.
''Colegian" Nourse, the now pitch
er of the Red SoX from Brown Uni.
yerslty, is also some big
Detroit Has Big Men,
Taken as a whole. Detroit probably
has the biggest staff OF Fingers In
either league. wild Bill" Donovan
Ralph Works, "Nckapoo" Summers
Killian, Willetts and Mullin are all
siX-footers.
Lefty" Sallee of the Cardinals
big Six" Mathewson of the Giants
and JEFF" Overall of the chesty Chi
cago Cubs are men whose large frames
help chem pitch game after game
without injuring themselves.
Warhop. the IrishIndian OF the
Highlanders, his. team-mate. Pete
Wilson; "Heine" Berger of the Maps.
Blaine IDurbin of the Reds" and
Dygert of the Athletics, arc small.
In the back-stopping department
Long Larry" Mclean Is the giant,
with Chief Myers OF the New York
Giants and Sweeney OF the Highland
ers close seconds Ira Thomas OF the
Athletics and Sullivan OF the White
Sox also are strapping big mon.
G'sson, one OF the Pirates" big
Four" Archer of the Chicago Cubs:
Smith, the Boston Doves new lead
cr; Jack" Kleinow OF the Highland.
ers. and Always Something Uocln
of the Philadelphia Nationals. are not
quite SO large. though when compar-
ed with the average individual they