Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-29
BY J. ED GRILLO.


making an effort to secure Delos Drake,
the outfielder. who batted .345 in the New
York State League last season. and who
is the property of the Detroit club. re-
ceived the official denial this morning
from President T. c. Noyes.
Drake was under consideration by
Manager McAleer last fall. and for sew
eral weeks Scout kahoe followed him
around the New York League circuit. His
report was to the effect that Drake would
not strengthen the Nationals outfield and
negotiations for him were dropped.
IL was suspected at the time that De-
troit wanted to sell Drake to Washington
and use the money secured in the sale TO
buy Ralston from Akron. for the Tiger
scouts were decidedly sweet on Ralston.
McAleer suspected such a switch, so
stepped in and bought Ralston. True. the
latter did not set things afire. but he
showed we'll enough to warrant his get
ting a thorough trial in the spring.
Incidentally if is not likely that Detroit
would want to pass up Drake without an
other trial, for the Tiger outfield was
wobbly at times last season. and is made
up of material which is not apt to show
any marked Improvement.
scout Nance report was 10 tHe eueCt
that Warren Miller, the Nationals farm
hand with Scranton. was a better man
than Drake. and as tMcAleer has recalled
Miller 1t would seem that he took ka-
hoes tip.
But what makes the proposition loo,
rather unfavOrable is the statement from
Monte Cross. manager of the Scranton
team. for whom Miller played. Cross
told the writer at the recent league meet
ing that Miller would never make ma
inr lea If he lived N he 100 wears
old He said he did not have the first
qualification to make good here: that he
lacked spirit could not learn the game
and was decidedly lucky to hold his own
in the New York State League company.
Cross. in fact does not want Miller
back il Washington does not use him, so
that it looks very much as If Miller
could not be counted on to fill one of the
holes in the Outfield.
The latest celebrity to make an effort to
come back is John McGraw. manager
of the New York Giants. McGraw has
self in perfect condition this spring. as
he intends to play in many of the Giants
early games.
McGraw got out of harness because of
an injured leg. This has been we'll rested
and may have entirely healed, in which
event there is no doubt that McGraw
would still be of great service to his
team. There never was a cleverer bat
ter than this same McGraw. He could
tantalize a pitcher more than any of the
great sluggers, for there was nothing
about the art of worrying a pitcher that
McGraw could not do.
OF course McGraw may be like some of
the other old fellowsLwhen he starts to
train he may find it too strenuous work
to continue and give UP the idea of play
Ing again
That it is no easy matter to get good
m q f0l rio <oy,y he T.
orally conceded. and yet there are in
stances where some most advantageous
trades have been made between two
major league clubs. In fact, the winning
the fact that a club has secured a
player from some club that the latter did
not think il could use.
Base ball history shows that some first
class men have passed from one club to
another in the last five years The fol-
lowing Is partial list of men who have
been sold or traded in recent years:
Pitchers-Morgan. st. Louis to Boston,
to the Athletics; Ed Smith. Chicago to
Boston: McQuilan, Moren and COveles-
kie, Philadelphia to Cincinnati: Ewing,
Brennan, Beebe and Rowan, Cincinnati to
Philadelphia: Cy Young. Boston to Cleve-
land: Browne. ST. Louis to Chicago: Over
all. Cincinnati to Chicago; McIntire
BROOKLYN to Chicago; Powell, New York
to st. Louis
Catchers-Bresnahan. New York to ST
Louis; Thomas. New York to Detroit to
the Athletics; Moran. Boston to Chicago
to Philadelphia: Clarke. Cleveland to ST.
Louis: Needham. New York to Chicago:
Donohue. Boston to Athletics: Schlei. Gin
cinnati to New York; Bergen. Cincinnati
to Brooklyn; Kleinow, New York to Bos-
ton.
Infielders-Brdwell Cincinnati to Bos-
ton to New York: II. Lord, Boston to
Chicago; Mcconnell. Boston to Chicago;
Knight, Athletics to Boston to New
York; Steinfeldt Cincinnati to Chicago;
Byrne. st. Louis TO Pittsburg: Griggs, ST
Louis to Cleveland; Lobert. Chicago to
Cincinnati to Philadelphia Grant, Phila-
delphia to Cincinnati: Shean, Philadel-
phia to New York: Moriarity New York
10 Detroit. Bransfeld. Pittsburg to Phil
adelphia; Delehanty, Washington to De-
troit: Becker. New York to Boston; j.
Stahl. Washington 10 Boston: Schaefer.
Detroit to Washington; Elberfeld, New
York 10 Washington.
Outfielders-Bates. Boston to PhiIadel-
rhia to Cincinnati; Paskert, Cincinnati to
Philadelphia; b. Lord. Cleveland to the
Athletics: Jackson. Athletics to Cleve-
land: Wolter. Boston to New York;
Stone. Boston TO ST. Louis: Sheckard.
Brooklyn to Chicago: Murray. St. Louis
10 New York: Cakes. Cincinnati to St
Louis; Gessler. Boston to Washington
killifer- Detroit to Washington: Beau
mont. Pittsburg to Boston TO Chicago.
In the above list are enough teams 70
form two or three penHant winners so
the talk that good players are not pro-
durable is hardly based on facts
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