Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-11
MARTY o'TooLE NOW
 THE STANDARD MEASURE.
Minor Ltsasusrs With Stars to Sell
 Match Then1 Up With Martyr

Let young minor league player sell Tor a phenomenaI sum of money, the standard. by which all other play CTS in that league are gauged. There's Marty O'Toole and Joe Benz, 1ol instance. O'Toole is the fellow who was sold tc the Pirates for $22,500. Renz is the young man who was pur- chased by President Comiskey of the White Sex and who worked against the Detroit Tigers in three innings of the last game between the white-hosed fellows and the crew of Jennings OToole last year pitched in the Western league Nor was he so well drought of out there. Even now the fellows who run ball clubs in that part oe the country are absolutely certain that he is worth no such sum of money as Barney Dreyfus paid. A good pitcher? Yes, they answer, but not a Well. soon after the sale of O'Toole this fellow Benz was placed on the Manager Hugh Duffy made a trip out to Des Moines, for whom Benz pitched. and looked the youngster over. Then he visited some of the other cities of the circuit and finally landed in St. Joseph, Mo. That's where Jack
 Holland is the boss. And since Hol- land and Duffy are friends the manager ot the White Sox naturally sought the minor league manager. # About this Benz2' queried the Chi cago manager.
 You will make no mistake" was the answer of Holland. You know what O'Toole is Well. when he left this league last year he wasn't anywhere rear the pitcher than Benz is today
 If OToole is worth anywhere near the price that Barney Dreyfus paid for him, then Benz is worth more than $t0,00O."
 That seemed to be the price that the Des Moines people were asking. too. for they wired several of the magnates offering the young pitcher for that sum- Whether MT. Comiskey paid that amount is not known. But that he paid good sum for the pitcher is pretty certain.
 But, getting down to the first propo- sitfon- Let a man step out of the minor. leagues and make good and he immediately becomes the standard by which all players are judged. Larry Doyle was among the first of the ball players to sell for a high amount. Im- mediately when a Three-I magnate wanted to dispose of young player he attempted to convince the major league magnate that the youngster was just as good as Doyle was when he left the Springfield club.
 In Michigan they measure their pitchers by King Cole of the Cubs. You attempt to negotiate for pitcher in the s. M.. and the first word you that the fellow you are looking at is certainly as good as Cole ever was and that he even looks better.
 Out in the Western league O'Toole has become the standard. Any old time that you attempt to buy twirler out there you learn that he is just as good as the Pittsburg recruit.
 Now that is nothing against Benz Whether he is as good as O'Toole or not is quite beside the mark Down on the South Side in Chicago they think they have find. He's a big fellow He has a lot of nerve and that was proved when he set the Ti- gers down one after the other in the three innings that he worked. That is after he got started. And his start was far from suspicious. The first man up singled and the next doubled. That was enough to make a youngster pam 1cky. But Benz didn't become so. He set down the next nine men to face