The Detroit times., 1912-01-13
|g0LlEGE PLAYERS DON'T
MAKE GOOD GENERALLY,
EVEN IN MINOR LEAGUES
Can Field Like Fienis But Fall
Own on Batting After
First Few Weeks.
SEVERAL TIGER RAILS.
Colleg- Pitchers Dom Give the
School Boys Proper Bat
ting Practice.
SEVERAL TIGER RAILS.

~ RALPH L. YoNkER.
College baseball players are very
backward about coming forward and
sticking IN the front ranks even In
The Q class OF the minors, according
% a. 8. Burkart, president Of the Sag.
nav team of the South Michigan.
There IL q great deal Of discussion
= 70 whether college men are pre-
. <crable TO those without the training
ok schools. Some point TO the great
co11oge men OF the Athletics and
claim that the rah-rahs are the kids
- raise the rumpus when they grow
out Of toy hats, plaid hose. and bull
Then Franklin Baker. graduate
1ufcher andJ general utility man
obout pas slaughter house. winter
clerk IN Philadelphia clothing store.
comes TO bat and drives the college
sharpe TO cover with space eating
Several of the Tigers are college
men. Jones attended college at Dix
on. III; Casey went to Villa Nova in
the east: Lathers is from the Uni
vorsity of Michigan; LATTE from
George Tech. and Wilson from Bow
n the minors college men field like
fools but fall down badly in batting
after the first few weeks Of league
BASEBALL They get away with their
hitting In great shape as general
thing when they start fresh from
school. Then the pitchers get wise
70 their weaknesses and it's all on.
The fault lies In the fact that the
rah-rahs don't face good enough pitch
crs during their college ball playing
10 learn all the fine points Of the
game and each man has some weak
spot that Is discovered before long
and@then he Ia an easy mark
Minor league magnates are Just re-
cokoring from their surprise at get
fIfIg what they asked for from the
NATIONAL commission In the way OF
Price for drafted players.
Ataise In price was expected but
Il twas hardly thought that the COM
lnjsh would come away UP to the
1eure asked for.
II means a great boost for minor
In the bushers count on making what
ever profits they can out of the draft
i'm Gnd purchase OF their men by the
h{<her leagues.
- 1910, the minors got a raise. from
I'D TO $500 for players drafted by
the majors: in 1911, il went to $500
for the majors and $500 for the min
orr and this year II has already been
. g. -.
probably be made $500 for the minors.
~ Cobb's speculations as to salary
1uIres of the future for ball players
brings to mind the fact that away
bork In 1902. the Tigers weren't sur
fe|Ing from starvation during the win
fer because Detroit didn't pay them
enough In the summer.
At that time William May was sec
r1>1ry Of the club. He had his office
~ Dis hat, as he tells In his own in
ImItable way. Referring to the files
a that ONCE he recalls that Jim Nc
CURE drew down $500 each season,
au1 Eberneld, Barrett, Casey and
Oilers were pulling ont $1,000 for
fh<Ir services.
3 that time the crowds to, see the
ball players, exhibit their high priced
f1Ients was lonesome one, too, and
the clubs management paid .out a lot
more money than they took in at the
'rhsm weren't the happy days"
president Navin announced in the
c11t that some OF the chairs OF the
Old Bennett Park will be shipped east
A. Providence and placed there in the
two parks which the Grays will use
Ho(h plants will be improved.
One OF the chairs for the new park
destined to have accommodated
re patrons by the time the season
ms than most OF them will have at
close. That Is the one now on
hibition In the baseball ONCE.
n In q sample of the kind tc be
IA In the grandstand. II is an nm
&rafortable looking thing. The seat
rs short and the short iron arms
= stingy. ~
'uf the tan fans and the short fans.
skinny fans and the fat fans. ali
BE that II Is a regular Morris chair
on they sit in II, good cigar and
weather only are needed to bring
N baseball comfort In IL.
resident I.ynch's plan for the train
OF umpires for the National
kue in minor leagues meets with
Iroval from many. This plan has
~ suReested before but never tried
<ill be watched with interest.
me idea OF farming out OF PLAYERS
long been recognized as wise and
90. hrs ~
build not work exactly az we'll with
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