Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-01
SALE MAY
KEEP HIM OUT Of
THE BIC SERIES
Big Catcher Who Seems Sure
of Being Picked on the Team
That Will Play Champions at
Close OF the Season, Is Won
dering if His Sale to Boston
Will Prevent Him from Play
ing.
TOR Newark to win a pennant now
would take nothing short Of =

FOR Newark to win a pennant now
would take nothing short Of .
miracle after the poor start the
Tigers nave made, and local fans are
specializing as to what two members
of the Newark team will be picked for
the all-star team which will face the
championship aggregation at the close
of the season. From present indica~
tions hat job of President Edward 9.
Barrow and the manager of the team
which finishes in the runner-up posi-
ton who will be called on to select
the all-star team will be a most diff.
cult one.
The season is not yet far enough adj
vanced to enable any expert to ac-
c%urately judge the ability of any of the
players. The ruling covering the selec-
tons of the all-star team Is hat w
men must be chosen from each team.
with the exception. of course, of the
champions. That will give the all-star
team fourteen men.
Catcher Cady, of the Newark team.
is n of the players who doubtless
would be chosen, but the terms of the
sale of Cady to the Boston Red Sox
require that he report Immediately ~
the close of the Eastern League sea-
son. This series will mean five games
and that means five days to cadS,
which belong to Boston, but 1t is prob
able that Cady can induce the Bos
ton management to give him permits
sion to play in his series ii he Is
chosen, and he certainly will be It
eligible. The three best catehers OF
the league are Cady of Newark, Egan
of Baltimore and Phelps of Toronto,
There are several other members of
the Newark team who might be eiis-
ible for the all-star team on past per-
formances, including MeGinDity, Les,
Kelly, Louden, Agler and Benny Meyer
as utility man. If Dalton continues to
bat at his present clip ne, too, will y
eligible, and it can easily lie seen wha-
a task ii will be for the president OF
the league, with the aid of his ma
ager, to decide which plir of thes.
players will tie worth the most TO the
all-stars. OF course all oil tho players
are anxious 10 make The team when
will battle against the champions, as
the series will probably mean $309
apiece at the least to each man, and
$500 is a months pay for five days
work. AL of the games will be played
in the town which boasts the cham,
pion team, and it looks now as though
Rochester or Toronto will be the Town
When the Providence Grays, make
their initial appearance of the season
here this afternoon they Will have in
uniform two players who once wore
Newark uniforms, though most of the
local fans have forgotten them. One
of the men is Hi Perry. who got a try
ont with the Newark sailors as the
team was called then. In 1871, the last
year Walter Burnham owned and man
aged the club, Perry WIS one of the
Youngsters which Burnham picked up
in a batch which included Sud Sharpe
and Jack Mccarthy, who starred that
year as the teams winning pitcher and
pinch hitter, to Join the Cincinnati
squad at the close of the season by the
deal. in which Newark obtained
Catcher Oscar Stanage from the Reds.
The team trained at lakewood that
sprin, and Perry wa making a great
record as a batter and fielder on the
training trip and in the spring series,
but could not hit after the league sea-
son opened and was let out. Since then
he has played on the coast and been
drafted by the Boston Americans twice.
This spring he was turned over to
Providence. and he has been playing
regularly in the outfeld.
The other former NeWarker. Frank
McDermit. the Providence thlrd-sacker.
was given a trial by Manager George
Stallings, when the Buffalo manager
took charge of the Newark team in
1908. lie was sent to the Western
League, and played with Tooeka until
Providence drafted him last fall.