Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-06
'OUNGSTERS whose playing dur
ing their first year in the East

| ~ ing their first year in the East
| ern League has been good
enough to warrant their promotion to
the major organizations after ono
season have been few IN past years as
compared with the crop that Will be
reaped by the big fellows this trip. The
Eastern League has been dubbed "the
dumping ground of the major leagues"
in past seasons, so that il is quite in
terestinG to note such was not the case
during the season just closed.
Chubby Manser. of the Jersey City
club, has been plucked by the Brook
lyn club through the draft system
Manser has had quite some experience
in the Eastern league, and as Brook
lyn needs pitchers he may fill in just
right. Laf1tte and Blair are taken
from the Rochester club, but both have
been up before. Paul Krichel goes
from Montreal to the St Louis Ameri-
cans, as does Joe Crisp, of the Newark
club. Some of these players have been
picked up before, but it was the old
"cover-up" gag and they never had a
| chance to show their merits
Perhaps the most phenomenal player
who attracted CROUCH attention to Sc
cure promotion TO faster company was
Clarence Lefty Russell, of the Bal
timore Club. Russell has already
pitched one game and won it for the
Philadelphia Athletics, to whom he
reported at the close of the Eastern
League season. Russell was picked up
! by Jack Dunn from one of the Sunday
school leagues in the vicinity of Bal
timore. The season was scarcely un-
derway when reports began to reach
every point of the circuit concerning
the successful performance on the slab
of this southpaw pitcher. His wonder
full sped and control for left-hander,
and his ability to throw the splitter,
made him one of the most difficult
pitchers in the league to hit Right and
left he moved down his opponents,
pitching games as a rule in which the
hits were scarcer than the proverbial
hens teeth. AS early as June / Jack
Dunn began to receive offers for Rus
| sell, but it was not until the middle of
July that 1T was announced that Rus
sell had been sold to Connie Mack for
$4,000. The report. as usual caused
a big sensation, but 1t is doubtful II
Connie ever paid a cent for Dunns
| star portside slant artist The man
1
can Leaguers had been sending his
surplus material to Baltimore all sea-
son with the probable understanding
that he should have the pick of the
Oriole flock at the close of the sea-
SON. Such men as Heitmuler Nichols
Rath. Code and Walsh were turned
over to the Monumental City Club dur.
ing the course of the season, and it is
| Cinph that
for all of them. Jack Dunn says that
Russell Is the best southpaw pitcher
he has ever seen. and says that Clar-
ence has no superiors anywhere Old
ball players, however, say that Russell
has snap delivery that will put his
arm out of gear in no time, Just as II
did Harry Krause the southpaw VINO
pitched such high-grade ball in his
first year out. Russell has been ad-
vised to do away with the splitter, and
he, did pass it up often during the last
weeks of the campaign, but when he
got into a pinch he couldn't resist the
temptation to use his pet delivery.
Russell's pitching had great deal to
do with the success of the Orioles in
finishing third after getting bad
| start.
Toolcy "Find.v
| Another youngster who made good
and delivered the goods during the past
season Is Bert Tooley, of the Champion
Rochester Club. Tooley got his chance
to show his ability when ED Holly,
who later went to the Montreal Club.
met with an accident in June Tooley,
who was plucked from the bushes last
spring will be given a trial by Brook
T. lyn next season. He is an exceptional
| ly timely hitter and was always one
of the most dangerous batsmen in the
Hustler lineup when the Ganzelites
played the Newark Tigers More than
one game did he break up by his
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