The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-18
MAGEE MADE GOOD
With The PRILLIES

From the lot to a major league club
and a star from the start was the way
Sherwood Magee broke into the Ma
tional league as a member OF the Phil
adelphia team. Just now he is in the
public eye. as the player to be traded
for Donlin In the badly muddled Phil
adelphia National affair.
Never In the history OF the national
game has a player broken into fast
company and stuck there the way Ma
gee has. He never played in a minor
league and he was not even on his own
home town team when a scout OF the
Phillies discovered him. One day Jim
Randall, Philadelphia man who years
before had discovered Ed Delehanty,
took a trip into the country district.
He got Off the train by chance at Car
Isle, Pa, went among baseball bugs"
and heard them discussing some won
derful plays that a kid had been max
ing. The kid played left field on the
Linder team OF Carlisle. Randall
thought that he would look the young
ster over just for future reference.
Gives Younaster q Surprise.
No ono surely would think OF seek
ing major league talent in a team that
did not even have the backing of the
town, but was a sort Of scrub aggrega-
tion. So Randall fingered in the town
until Lindner played a game. He kept
his eye on Magee, and the kid, little
lsuspecting that in few days he would
be wearing a major league uniform,
lplayed In his natural way. Randall
Thought Magee had all the earmarks of
la star player. That night he got the
Iyoungster into conversation and cas-
Iually inquired how he would like to
play with a league team.
The youngsters eyes opened wide.
with what team?" he inquired.
At Carlisle the Phillies are held In
high esteem.
with the Phillies," replied Randall
The kid fell off the chair. He could
mot believe that he had heard right
-iand 1t was not until Randall pulled on
: a contract and offered him a roll o
! bills that Sherwood Magee realized
a that he was not dreaming.
Q Goes to Philadelphia.
: The next DAY Magee went to Phila'
] IdeIphia. He was given one practic'
G and then he was sent in to play lef
field. Inside of two seasons thii
youngest of the youngs from the lot
was such batting star that In 1870
only one man stood between him ant
the highest batting honors Of the Ma
tional league.
Magee is of the slugging type o
lplayer, a fielder and base runner o
such a caIfber that he filed the shoe
of the man who had played left fiel'
on the Quakers for years and who wa
the talk of the country, Ed Delehanty
Q Magee is what might be termed
q baseball bug. He is for baseball from
g sun up to sunset and from January
s to December 81. He would play twelv
II hours a day If lis manager would lie
him. In temperament he is not lead
q er. He is easily discouraged, but tn
q mood passes as quickly as 1t comes. N
l. more natural born ball tosser ever
'e stepped on the field than Sherwood
y One day last summer when the Phil
IL Hor had ended a sensational spur
: which nearly put them in first plac
lie A.agee, worn out from the strain {
the hard fight, made one of the mos
IN sensational catches ever seen on tn
IN field. He got the bali while on
ce tremendous sprint by making a hig
A. leap in the air and pulling it dow
10 with one hand.
Jumped Through q Window.
: That night before retiring at the HI
n. tel Magee ate a lot Of grapes and w;
A. attacked by Indigestion, which broug
to on a nightmare. In his dreams Mag
On played over again the contest Of tn
Ill afternoon. Suddenly he gave sprir
out OF bed, yelled i've got it," ga
ke leap into the air and went flingir
nd backward through window. Fort
as nately there was a shed under Il
as window and he landed on this al
an rolled to the ground badly cut al
t. Iscraped, but without bone broken.
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