Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-22

Der chiefly In the minor leagues. so far
1t hasn't borne very luscious fruit. Some
good players have got away from Brooklyn
by deals, but few taken in. Jordon, Alper-
man, Lennox, Hummell, Mcmillan. Lumley,
Kurtus, Berger, Dunn, Bell, Rucker. Pas
torius. Hunter, wilhelm, McIntire and
Seaman are all minor league recruits.
Burch was taken on after st. Louis had
discarded him and has been a valuable
man for the team. Marshall is another
who had had big league experience.
Direct from the minor leagues the Boston
Americans got such a promising man as
Speaker, one Of the best youngsters Of the
year, also Mcconnell. the fast young sec
ond baseman; Lord, Carrigan, Cicotte,
French, Arellanes, Wagner and Hooper.
Gessler had been in the big leagues be-
fore, while Jack Stahl was had in a trade
with New York. Thoney, Chech. Wolter,
Spencer, Gessler and Schlitzer have all
been with other big league teams for a
short time
Veterans and youngsters make up the
wabbly Boston National league aggrega-
ton. Ritchey, B~owerman, Dahlen, Beau
mont and Harry Smith, had by deals and
trades, are old-timers in the service, while
Starr and Ferguson, comparative young
sters, were with other big league teams
before going to the Doves. Becker. Beck,
Stem Aubrey, Bates, Tuckey, White, Linda
man and Mattern have practically been de-
veloped by the Boston club, while Nc
earthly served a brief term as pitcher with
the Pittsburg team. Former Pittsburgers
figure conspicuously in the formation of
the Boston team.
The strong Pittsburg team secured one
of Its maintays in the box, Victor Willis,
/ in q deal with Boston, but has obtained a
u great deal of its strength by looking else
o where than IN hIO Lac ~ associates Doxn.,
Dreyfuss is a fine Judge of a young player
d himself and has an able lieutenant in Fred
Clarke. Clarke, through all his long big
league career, has been steadily with Drey-
; russ. first in Louisville, then in Pittsburg.
A Dreyfuss discovered and developed
e Tommy Leach and Hans Wagner; at least
l. he knew enough to go for and get them
when they were in the minor leagues.
y Miller and Abstein come straight from
smaller leagues, as also have Wilson, Glib
son, Camnitz, Maddox, Leifield, Philippe,
Adams, Hyatt and Frock. storke was a
m college player, and Barbeau had found his
way first in, then out of the big leagues
before Pittsburg revived him and found
l. him very useful.
Cantillon of the Washingtons is a great
hand for trades, for getting hold of men
b from other major league clubs. He bought
Conroy from the New Yorks and got
George Browne, Hughes, Donohue, I'm
glaub, Delehanty,, Mcbride and Clymer
from other big league organizations. Milan,
johnson, Gray, Groome, Smith, Freeman,
Schipke, Street and Blankenship are his
own productions, so to speak. As a dis
coverer of good young pitchers he has done
exceedingly we'll.
Connie Mack Of the Athletics builds and
rebuilds largely with young players OF
. his ONyn sr0prInR aff0rfa EIsa he toIv.-
more seasoned players and makes them
better-Hartsel, Murphy and Davis, for in
stance, who all had been In the big leagues
before taking UP with Connie. He kept
young Collins, the Columbia university
product; nursed him along for several sea-
sons and made a star OF him. GanIey he
got by purchase from Washington and
Thomas the same way from Detroit. Deals
much less than his own efforts in digging
up players have brought him success, for
he has turned out Nichols, Barry, Barr,
Oldring, Plank, Bender, Dygert. Krause
and Coombs. first getting them from the
minors.
The Philadelphia Nationals have de-
pended little on former big league players.
Bransfield came from Pittsburg, while
Moore was once with Cleveland. Billy
Murray took him. however. after he had
- ! 6OhG pdCh IL . lAAlAiO ACAkuEs hudDGt OOO-
Ian, Doom, Magee, Titus; Osborn, Moren,
Mcouillen, Covaleskie. Richie and shean
have all been developed by the Philadel-
phls club. Another team OF self-develop-
ment is the Cincinnatis. Griffith got
Fromme In a deal with st. Louis. but most
OF the other players have been brought
out as major leaguers by the club itself
among them Mclean, Egan, Higgins
Downey, Cakes, Paskert, Bescher, Mitchell
Roth, Campbell. Casper. Ewing, Rowan
Dubuc and Castleton. The Chicago Ma
tionals had Lobert once for a short while
The Cleveland club got hold Of Lajoie
Bradley and Flick In the raid on the Ma
tional league. Ball comes from the New
York Americans, while Goode was once
with that club. Young was bought from
the Boston Americans. Falkenburg wa!
had in a trade with Washington and Beml
and Hinchman had big league experience
before casting their fortunes with Cleve
land. The club therefore has not done
great deal of developing Of young players
However, It has bought out some goo
ones with the aid of the minor leagues
such as Stovall. Turner, Joss, Liebhardt
Clarke, Berger and Perrng.
Bill Donovan, Dsvy Jones. Moriarty
Crawford and Mcintyre were major leagu
players OF varying lengths of time befor
they went TO Detroit. The only Cobb wa
that teams own development and Dutc
Schaefer virtually sos Bush was had b
purchase from indianapolis. Mullin, VIII
leads the American league pitchers. hs
risen to fame under the Detroit banne
and the club has brought into the maje
league ranks Killian, Summers, Willie
stanaEe, Beckendcrf. o'Leary, Suggs an
Works.
Comiskey has done q good deal OF swal
ping and buying to get together his tear
lie got Burns and AltiEer that way, ali
Parent Dougherty and Hahn and WIFI
lsbell and Sullivan have been with hi
almost from the first, Davis was land
in the war round up. PuTtsu il a youn
ster OF his own development. He got A
from the Southern league and under hi
Walsh. Smith. Scott, Owens. sutor. Weld
= and Fiene have come TO the front