The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-13
Lefty High Will
 Stick With Giants
St. Louis Sporting Writer Has Great Boost for For
 mer Hartford Outfeldef

In speaking about Lefty High, the former Hartford ,outf1elder who was 1 bought by the Giants. last season, Billy Murphy contributes the follow ing article to the '-St- Louis Starr
 There is, today, working at the piu.nbing trade in St. Louis, the boy who is going to take Jack Murray's s place in the New York Nationals out field.
 That he will get the job seems to those who ought to know whereof the.- speak, beyond cayil; that he is with the McGrawites to stay, may safely be assumed. The question then for the writer to enlighten you on. are:- 1. Who is he?
 2 What will be his effect upon the Giants team, as at present con-
 3 Who is he, that his friends should predict such a roseate baseball future for him.
 Here goes for No. l:
 The young man is Lefty High. Last year-his first out in major league company-with Hartford, Conn. bred. is 22 years of age In his stock ing feet. he stands five feet seven inches. Johnny McGraw at the close of the Connecticut league season last year paid Hartford $2,500 for this boy. Bob Hedges would. not give him a trial at the beginning of the year 1910.
 Hedges was offered High and "Dee' Walsh. but did not deem that either of these lads was fast enough for Ameriean itn Leag%e fsaf Gompany Wa1se will get a trial with Cincinnati in 1912 Certainly. somebody blundered; somebody grievously erred when the these lads were not the candy.
 High weighs, today, leo pounds of bone, sinew and muscle; his face is lysc r1ff yfrRl nd sun; his pulse is full and even; his appetite is prodigious; he is "a boy who is growing all the time.
 He bats left-handed; throws with the same fin; has never played any position but left ield-but he will
 Why shouldn't he get Jack Mur-
 Murray cannot go back on fly ball; there IS no surer catch in the world today than Hugh Lefty High, for gue com pany last campaign over 300.
 In the Trolley League, hitting against such pitchers as Bert Groome, he slammed the leather for .444 av-
 On the bases. High is faster. than. Murray: he is a better thrower and we have seen of late years. has the. old winging whip of Willie Keeler, who shot the ball in low to the home iiee a bullet out of a rifle
 In the Trolley League, he had more assists from the field. five to one, than any other player-and- he was lined up and opposed to some mighty good ones. One of his assists made from left to first, caught Shortstop Dalton off the sack on an out at left field: Dalton could not get back to first before the mighty whip of Highs had nailed him off the. sack.
 Last summer. Charley -Dooin of the ager Connery g 500 for High. He wanted Lefty to take the place of Sherwood Magee Connery would not sell the St. Louisan, for such a figure
 The next week. High tapped out six hit in one game; There were two doubles. two singles, triple and a
 This toy was discovered by Charley 'FesenfeIdt, who was the first one to tout Bobby Byrne.
 High, then a kid, had been taken in charge by an officer for playing ball pened along. You see. Lefty" is a real boy. born with the instinct of a ball player Before the officer couldJ conduct High to the station, Fesen-' fefdt secured his release ---- --
 Then Lefty. started out with Fesen- feldt's TallSing Machines. that great juvenile team of five years ago. Lat CT he graduated into the Trolley. He hos been burning things up in base ball ever since ------ -.-
 Hirh is a boy of quick decision. nfdence. great persistency. great coi1ra ge great faith in himself, and of much baseball ability
 With these great primal diamond virtues he cannot fail to succeed.
 That's the reason we pick him for place in the New York Nationals outf1eld next season