Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-17
PICKING PITCHERS
IS JUST A LOTTERY

Pittsburg paid $4,000 for Pitcher
! Marty 0'Toole and simply put up car
fare for Claude Hendrix. Yet in the
season Just closed Hendrix won more
games than the expensive twirler. One,
cannot tell what is going to happen in
baseball The best judges of players
often make. mistakes. George Shree.
Ger, foynler. owner of, the Tacoma
Tigers, had too many pitchers one
spring. Among the lot was Walter
Johnson who had signed a contract
at S75 q month. Johnson was not
Classed as ''cultus" by Manager Lynch,
but Shredder had to cut down. SO let
Johnson 60 over to. Idaho, securing
him a. job that paid more than what
he had signed for in the Northwestern
League. At the close of the season
E.IohnsOn'S name was not put on the
reserve list, so when Cliff B!anken-
ship jumped from Washington, D.. c.,
to Weiser, Idaho, took one look at the
young giant and nailed him there
was no chance for Tacoma 10 assert
ownership, Blankenship's trip was a
knockout for President. Dugdale, of
Seattle, as he considered Johnson as
good as booked for Seattle. Harmon,
who is now one of the st. Louis Car
dinals' best pitchers, was turned
loose by Portland. Bob Brown, of
Vancouver, candidly admits that he
Las lost half a dozen stars by not
following up tips. On the other hand,
every manager has half dozen phe
noms tipped to him every week. Every
spring we see them come and go, and
it is no more than natural that once
in a while a mot ready" should even
tually come through in the course of
development.
Frank Navin, owner of the Detroit
club, according to a story going the
rounds, Swore a streak every time he
looked at the box scores of the last
worlds series Reason? Three twir-
lers that the Tigers booted out of the
cage without even a trial figured as
winners. First comes Tesreau. They
took Jeff into the City of Straits and
kept him hU: ing the glObGie Tor ten
days. Jenr 7gs sought out the
smooth-faceG owner of the Tigers and
whispered his song for Jeff into the
},
Cut the big fellow away from the
kale." said the Scranton Blackstone.
Hes due for TIC the minors the rest
of his natural.
Next on the last was Hugh Bedient.
Get down on hedient, and do it!
quick" was the CiSt of the little mis-
siye that snapped over the steel
threads of NaIin
Navin took h" TIP and also the |
message to Robert Lincoln Howe Mr.. |
Howe, is might he said. was a scout
for the Jungaleers. He jaunted down
to Providence and he looked Bedient
over. His glance didn't appraise
Hughie at moe iran 80 cents an the
dollar, and he TUNED him down as
cold as the Arctic Wien the frost is |
on the pumpkin here.
Now for the jhird one of the trio
who was kicked from the BengaleSe ;
bungalow. About two years ago. |
when John |. Taylor was making Da- |
vid Harum look like a reactionary in |
the barter and exchange line. he want !
ed to make a dicker with jennings |
Taylor at that time, was swapping !
anything that looked like a ball play
er on his team. He was modest in |
his demands He'd take anything
from a pawn ticket for a set of furs
to a piece of Alaskan diamond for
his FASTENERS.
Taylor got a swell Young crouch /
on Josephus Wood. He thought the