El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30
Texas League Dope


fast company but some of them are now
cIassed among the best men the great
| American sport has even seen, taking
rank alOno with LajOie, Cobb, HOnuS
Wagner, MathewsOn and others whose
I names are known everywhere baseball
| is known.
| This is not a standing given the men
! by their admirers in Texas but so rec
: ognized by the best sporting writer's
men could not be purchased from the
teams with which they are playing for
: a small fortune, and the salaries they
are drawing are almost as large as the
salary limit for an entire team in the
! Texas league
Two Texas Stars.
There are only two real Texas stars
| in the National league, although the
number is considerably larger in the
American league. The two in the Ma
tionaI are Wheat Outfielder. with
I Brooklyn, and Drucke, pitcher, with the
| New York Giants. AS an Outfielder
/ Wheat has no superior in that league,
I and is accounted one of the greatest
/ ball players that has ever played in
the outer garden. He is batting about
the 800 mark and his fielding record is
very close to 1000. Fancy prices have
been offered Brooklyn for him. but
a
| der any circumstances.
Drueke is hailed as the successor of
Mathewson. not as the result of one
| of two star games, but as the result of
a hard seasons " orlI. Next season. il
| he does as we'll as he has this. he will
| be one of the most valuable men the
! New York team will have on the firing
| line
Tony Smith, formerly with Galveston.
hor 10 CHI SfO m "
Brooklyn, but his playing is not of
sensational order in any way.
In the American League.
In the American league the Texans
! with the reputation are Speaker. out
fielder with Boston: Karger, pitcher
I with Boston: Newman. first baseman
with st. Louis, and Truesdale, second
/, baseman with St. Louis
Speaker is the brightest star Of any
individual player who has ever gone to
! big league company from Texas, being
ahead of Wheat, who is considered
/ among the best. Although only a
yOungster Speaker is crowding Lajoie
and Cobb for batting hOnOrs as the
| worlds star swat artist and his ad-
mirers are betting that he viii be the
winner of the auto offered for the best
batter in the two leagues. His fielding
record is also the equal of that of any
Karger has come back" He has now
pitched five seasons in big league com
pany. His first year was sensational
He was with St Louis that season. At
the close of the year that team got
fabulous offers for him The next year
he slumped and has beein doing indif-
ferent work until the present season.
Despite the fact that he IS with Boston.
which always has a hard time winning
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top of the league. Only one twirler in
the entire league leads him and that is
the great Bender He IS making that
old time marvel look close to his laureIs
if he does not want to lose his rating
as the champion finger in the American
league. He is also batting at lively
clip.
Two Who Have Made Good.
Newman and Truesdale. of ST Louis,
although with the tail enders, have =
| right TO be classed with the stars.
Both took up)N ork at positions in which
others had made repeated failures They
had TO win out against hostile press
and fans who had their hammers out
in great shape for them Men who can
win under those circums tances have in
them the material out of (which great
baseball players are made
Those mentioned will most certainly
/ T.
and II their past work can be taken as
a criterion they are all destined for
even greater work
While these men have proved signal
successes. there have been others who
| have proved equally as great a dis
appointment. In this class must be
put Bailey. of St. Louis: Griggs, of St
Louis; Mitchell, of Cleveland; Crisis. Of
St Louis, and others
| ba &Ho 81,
but he may yet be able TO DO work that
Will warrant his retention in fast COM
pany. For two years he pitched good
ball but this year he has done moth
| ing. Lack of control and ineffectiveneSs
have been his ''hOodoos" all the year ct
he is only q years OF ago, younger than
most men get into fast company He is
filling out to his stature and he has
plenty of time to yet make one of the
worlds best pitchers.
Two Lazy Ones.
For Griggs and Crisis no good word
can be said. Grggs could make good
if he tried He is lazy. stubborn and q
gutter There is nothing in him that
goes TO make a real fighter. CrisS is of
much the same calliber. He is lacking
in ambition and has only one redeeming
feature ability to hit in pinches. These
men may hang on in the major leagues
a little longer but they will never do
any good.
Willie Mitchell tried to pitch for
Cleveland, but went TO the bad He is
with the American association and may
get another chance next year. He is
young yet.
Graham, who was with st. Louis but
who was released TO the Southern
league is not making good with that
! association and will probably drop next
season into a lower class league.
There will be a number of Texas
players who will go up this fall They
will have the good examples to inspire
their work and the bad examples to
warn them. The Texas admirers of the