The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-12
Too Much Of il Following Their De-
but in Major League Company
Makes Them Anxious to
do Too Much.
CORRIDOR AS EXAMPLE
Billy Evans. American League TIM
pire Throws Few Side Lights
on First Days Work OF
That Younsster.

w nuSH uooSilHS O1te0 plays
havoc with promising young plays-s.
says Billy Evans, the American
league umpire. Quite few youngsters
are spoiled by over-exertion on the
part OF weli-meaning press agents.
the progress of others is similarly
retarded by an over-abundance Of
nice things said in their behalf. AS
one OF the best examples of this he
cites the debute OF Red Corridor,
Inc former keokuk player, in ST.
Louis last season.
Late last summer youngster by
the name of Red" Corridor Joined
the st. Louis Browns. He was an in
felder and had played with the Oma-
ma team of the Western League. st.
Louis was going badly at the tima,
and Corridor was given chance to
show the very day he reported. He is
little chap, but he looked bigger
than Jack johnson at the close of MS
first game in the. big league.
Corridor was used at shortstop.
and he put up a most phenomenal
game. st. Louis fans have been is I'd
TO seing high-class work in the short
field, with Bobby Wallace playing the
position, but Corridor on that mem.
orable day did evrything that Bobby
Wallace ever did. He went to has
right and to his left and handled the
most difficult of grounders that had
every appearance of being base hies.
The next instant he would rush over
to the left foul line and pull down a
tall fly, while moment later he
would go back. into short left center
and grab tantalizing Texas Lacquer.
He accepted something like a dozen
chances, over half of them difficult,
in faultless style. While he did not
break any fences at the bat, he ar
peared to be very fair hitter.
A fairly good crowd was in attend
ance that day, and everybody was
talking about Corridor as they leS1
the grounds. No one had time to dis
cuss anything that evening exccp
the wonderful playing of the RED
headed kid as the diminutive Cor
ridon was at once dubbed. The mex
day the recruit was the one best BE-
on the sporting page. He broke int,
all the sporting sheets with his pilot,
and drew column or two of bou
Duets from all the kind-hearted eli
tors.
Corridor vas the most talked q
man in ST. Louis that day. All I'll.
fans We're anxious to get their Gin
mers on this wonderful Young mar
who could play shortstop as well Il
the reliable Bobby Wallace TIL
crowd that saw the game the afts
noon following Corridors debut wa
about three times as large as an
gathering that had turned out to Sc
the Browns play for month previou
to that time
II was very unfortunate day 81.
the youngster. The many, many kin
boosts that were handed him sr
IDENTITY unneryed the kid for ever
thing broke badly. He knew that IN
crowd had come out to see him r
peat his star performance of the de
previous, and he was anxious to tur
the trick. but he failed dismall
1iOuih udllS tbdL ndu 1ReH easy. IL
him the day previous we're mispla
ed, while Texas leaguers and 70,
lilies dropped just out of his reael
At the bat he cut three deep gasm
In the air on several occasions. II
performance was just the reverse ,
his debut. Fans who were singing a
praises twenty-four hours preyiou
left the grounds insisting that ii
.'phenom'' had exploded over night
This little fellow Corridor is real
q clever youngster. His start was $
brilliant that it resembled the playln
OF an experienced star. No youngst-
could expect to keep up such yai
The many nice things said about hi
were well meant and deserved, b,
they had very bad effect, for the
caused the youngster to think that i
must repeat. He realized the fans r
garded him as wonder. AS resul
Corridor failed to regain his stri.l
during the rest of the year and real
did not play anything like the gam
he is capable of playing.