The Detroit times., 1912-01-16
PRESEASON DOPE IS
USELESS, BUT BEWARE
BOSTON, SAYS LOWE
Tiger SCOUTING Chief Says That
4 Players Ups and Downs Make
Predictions Valueless.
YET BOSTON LOOKS GOOD.
Gainors' Injury Last Year Is a
Striking Example OF
Quick Upsets.
YET BOSTON LOOKS GOOD,
nx RALPH |. YoNkER.

Baseball players go up anu WV"
too quickly to make any pennant pre-
dictions nj this time Of the year Vaiu-
able" says Robert Lowe, Tiger scout,
in-chief. while you can pipe-dream
ON the dope. your visions are very
likely to be smashed rudely oy the
first week of the training season.
Last year the Tigers had striK-
Ing example OF this early season
smash.ups in the injury TO Gamer.
Just a crack from one Of Jack Coomos'
shoots and the whole dope sheet was
torn to tatters.
"A great many times players don't
do what is expected of them, either,
or what they seem absolutely destined
TO do. Ty Cob, for instance, was
never expected to become the great
bali PLAYER that he is. When he nrst
came here he was feeling sick, and ne
5 didn't do anything wonderful. Then
later he upset everything.
.But, forgetting that II is useless TO
done IN this baseball business, AXE
this from me. The Boston bunch VIII
Z surprise the rest OF the American
league. Nobody anticipates that they
will do much. and there Is wnere
!. they will fool 'em."
Every time a baseball player gets
"a kink In his wing, the announce
ment expected is that he has gone TO
{ YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. for treatment, at
the hands of Bonesetter Reese. This
man has done more than any other IN
dividual to put Youngsville-er-town
Ion the baseball map.
Who is this strange "Bonesetter!
Al Chicago paper tells:
fsBopesetter Reese Is an institution.
He is the last poise in his line ana
his line is contributing first aid TO the
peeved arms and exasperated joints
that befall the pitchers and batsmen
( Of the big leagues. John ID. Reese, Nj.
ID. il his entire monicker and for ~
I years he has been the balm OF Gilead
10 the mound demons whose wings
have become afflicted with symptoms
or anything from neurasthenia 10
common everyday soreness.
HE has removed the lurking ills
from the wing OF almost every big
league star and he has helped win
I more than one pennant for more than
one team. Among the distinguished
y visitors who have made haste TO the
bonesetter for assistance are Chance,
n Itnelbach. Overall and Bransfeld or
the Cubs. A majority OF the Pirates
have .stormed his doors-O'Toole, VIII
son. Camnitz. Gibson, Leach. Clarke
and the mighty Hans Wagner.
"The ravaging Giants, Marquard,
sDrucke. Wiltse and Ames, have beat
en- Ii thither for dry dock attendance
Magee and Moore of the Phillies;
Scanlon and Bergen of Brooklyn, and
Cy Young and Flaherty of the Boston
Rustlers complete the roll call OF the
National league diamond FASTENERS
I who have at one time or another
called upon the subtle wisdom OF the
celebrated bonesetter to mend their
shattered wings and paws, hns, mitts,
pins and kicks,
rTbe American league players who
have been treated by Reese include
LANCE, Sullivan, Walsh and Dougher-
~ OF the White Sox; Wallace and Pei
~ OF the Browns; Hemphill of the
Yanks: Lajoie and Turner OF the
Maps: Mcbride, Elberfeld, Gessler and
Hughes of the, Senators; Mullin and
Gamer OF Detroit, and Lord OF the
omnipotent Athletics.
From this extended list 1t may be
seen at one slant that Bonesetter
Reese Ii not jest of the irrespons-
ibie sport scribe, but real and some
times very, very vital element In the
game. The bonesetter has in his de-
cade OF practice made his name one
SYNONYMOUS with hope and more hope |
among the managers of the leagues.
The owner who squanders buckets
% gold on some precocious pitching |
expert and then discovers that his |
tinsei-lined bargain has been using
family skeleton, smile for core arm,
does not surround himself with blue
funk until he has dispatched his gold
brick to DIR. John r. Reese for YER
dict.
This IL exemplified in the recent
aiiing Of Marty O'Toole. Barney Drey-
fuss, after detaching himself from the
vellknown vast quantity OF money,
must have been happy man when
Marty told him that there was a dis
furbance among the tendons of his
fMart's) diamond.studded twirling
arm. Dreyfuss lost no time I'm sending
the new pitcher 10 the bonesetter, and
The bonesetter swept Marty's splendid
wing with one sweep and pronounced
Il o. K.---bill 70 follow"
The final action necessary 20 make
Frank J. Navin, w. r. Yawkey. F. r.