The Detroit times., 1911-12-23
SEVEN SCOUTS WORK ALL
SUMMER TO FIND MEN TO
KEEP THE TIGERS FRESH
Bobby Lowe, Former Tiger, Is
Best Known of the
Magic Number.
BRESNAHAN FORTUNATE.
In Securing Kinsella He Gets a
Man With Wonderful
Record.
BY RALPH |. YoNkER.

IL 10 evident tnat bresnhnan GOT tue
Jump on Muggsy McGraw when he
signed up Kinsella for his scoEt-in'
chief When a scout considers IL not
bad piece OF work TO get one good
player for his club during the sea
son. the record made by kinsella IL
nothing short OF marvellous.
Rube Marquard, Chief Meyers, Lar
nv Doyle, Arthur Fletcher, and Fred
HerzoR, all went to the Giants through
the efforts OF this one man.
One OF the chief reasons for the
success OF the Tigers can be found
in the complete scouting system en-
ployed. There are seven men out on
salaries securing the country every
summer for the Tiges.
Besides this. hundreds of loyal fans
help the system by sending their own
little tips into the Detroit once,
where they are filed as carefully as
inquiries in business house and the
scouts are Instructed TO watch the
men mentioned
IL is President Navin's aim to add
each year. to the Tiger roster, good
men TO take the places OF the Tiger
regulars as soon as they grow little
bit weary OF the fastest gait.
The seven men gum-shoeing Tor
Nsyin are all old, experienced base
ball men and they have filed In their
time about all the jobs on team.
Bobby Lowe is probably the best
known of the bunch. Besides him there
is Bill Clarke, of Baltimore, who
watches the men in the international
and other eastern leagues; Robert
Rothermill. who spied Gamer, when
4 he was wasting his talents out at
I Grafton. w Va Charley Nichols, the
Old Boston Joe sagdehIEthe
old ST Louis American pitcher, VINO
has helped the Tigers with their
young pitchers, and Cy Ferry be
sides these six men out on the IA
cific coast there is another representa-
tive of the Detroit band who keeps
himself under cover.
The infeld Is the part OF the team
which has to be watched with espe
,cial care, lest the men deteriorate
and II II were a possible thing, rres-
ident Navin would always have an
extra man for each position in the
inner patches.
The team always carries three
catchers, OF course. so there Is buff
fer there TO take away the shock OF
losing the premier man at any time.
In fact the catching position Is looked
upon as a lob in which the men are
graduated from the lower ranks up as
WAS the case with Oscar Stanage VINO
succeeded Schmidt.
The pitching stan, too, being large,
can generally stand the loss OF one
man for a short time until another
can be recruited TO ill his place. In
the outfield four men are always on
hand and the utility outfielder Is as
general thing of about the same call
Der as the men playing.
But the positions around the three
bases are so much different from each
, other that IL Is rare man who can
be showed into any of them without
losing value to his team.
II is President Navin's plan TO pro-
tect himself at each of. the corners,
by having on the roster men who can
be used in case the regular man shows
signs OF growing stale lis this anxi-
ETY. TO protect the first sack that
makes him open to propositions In
yolying a frst.baseman. In case Gain
err comes back. all well and good. But
in case he doesn't? Another last
year?
By using the system VI hihhB III
the holes one by one, there is no hap
pening of the "one boss shay type.
That is the reason that the Tigers
have been at the top OF the column,
fighting for first place, even when
they didn't win in recent years.
or course il is always the aim OF
every owner to keep his team from
getting stale. Not a man on the In
field of the first Detroit pennant-win-
ming team has a regular job on II
now.
OIeary, the shortstop, is being
used as utility man and is the only
one of the four still on the team.
Third.baseman Coughlin was released
at the end OF the year 1907; Rossman,
flrst.base was traded for Tom Jones
in 1910. and Schaefer for Delahanty
in the same year
Schmidt. then catcher, has been
succeeded by Stanage. While some OF
the old pitchers remain, youngsters
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