Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-04
EVERY CLUB IN LEAGUE HAD
A FALSE ALARM DURING YEAR
Several Of the Browns, Maps and White Sox
Explode With Loud Reports and Cause
Those Gibbs to Finish Low.

The uncertainty of base ball has
been referred to. off and on. 9.163
times. Among things that go to cause
this uncertainty is the terrific explosions
every spring and early summer of sun
dry minor league phenoms who had been
touted to simply break up the big
leagues. Batters come out of the bush
leagues with reps of being able to make
Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie look like ANA
teurs, while some of the pitchers are said
to be blessed with more speed than
Walter johnson and a greater array of
curves than Christy Mathewson, Addie
Joss and Mordecai Brown.
At the start some Of these youngsters
actually do show signs of living up to
their advance notices. but just as the
manager begins to pinch himself and ask
he is only dreaming the explosion takes
pla<As and back to the minors go the
spring beauties.
The American League had number Of
such players last spring. Cleveland having
its share. After l.addIe Link had shown
so we'll on the southern trip and had
also taken the Detroit Tigers into camp,
he was made to feel at nome III Cleve-
land. In fact too much at home. He did
SO well in the first month of the season
that Mcclure decided he did not need
Vean Gregg, with whom the club was
having some trouble because OF salary
differences. Then Link faded away ana
st. Louis took him by the waiver route.
He next turned up In Indianapolis, put
failed to distinguish himself in the COM
pany where he had been star in 1909.
Browning Blows UP.
Browning, the midget pitcher of the
eague, lookco like a rare find in Detroit.
especially after he had taken q brace of
games from the Maps, succeeding where
Willett and Mullin failed. But Cleveland
proved to be the only club he could beat
and Jennings allowed him to beat it back
to Frisco. Jennings also figured on Per-
noll replacing Ned Killian. The young
ster from the northwest did look mighty
sweet in games against the Browns ana
White sox and then &C, came ,. disaster ta IN IN
entire season, but has since drawn a
ticket for Oakland.
The only real Nap youngster over
whom players and war correspondents
burg semi-prc. In the games down south
Kirsch had the Maps breaking their
backs going after his curves and scored
victories over the Cubs and Cardinals
He looked SO good that brilliant future
was predicted for him by such players as
Lajoie, Birmingham and Bemis. The
season opened and Kirsch was still a
Nap. Three more weeks passed by and
then the youngster. having failed to dis
tinguish himself in a couple of games
where he was sent to the rescue, was
farmed to Toledo. From there he went
to Mansfield. There he struck his
proper class, but a lame arm threw him
out. He may be a comeback next year,
however. but not as a Nap.
st. Louis Was Unfortunate.
Jack O'Connor had three pitchers last
spring who looked like big league regu-
lars, but before the campaign was ended
they had found their way back to the
minors. They were Stremmell. Gilligan
and Kinsella. Later on O'Connor picked
up a youngster named Ray from one of
the Oklahoma City teams. He made his