Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
MADELUCKY PICKUP
Richmond Sold Player 1t In
tended to Release.
AYERS HAS fine RECORD
Nationals Recruit Pitcher Will Re-
port With Good Prospects-0ther
Virginia League Gossip.

RICHMOND, Va, August 12-When
Pitcher Perryman, who Is a product of
the Emory (Ga-) College, was sold to the
New York Giants for a cool $1,000 which
j. to come when the pitcher HES it to
Gotham at the close of the Virginia
League season. il was about as lucky a
pickup by the Richmond hackers as one
has ever heard of lately in these parts
Perryman was slated for release by Rich
mond because he could not win games,
and the day New York made a bid for
the young pitcher Manager Griffin went
to the office of the team to suggest his
release. Instead of making the sugges-
ton that Perryman be handed what all
base ball players dread, President Brad
ley turned over 10 him a telegram from
New York asking for the best price on
the pitchers contract The price
wired and the deal pulled off. just about
the time the pitcher was 10 have been
let 20.
Perryman, more than six feet and fully
80 pounds heavy, looks everything like Il
conner. but his record in the Virginia
League seems 10 he against him. Yet
with this with a good catcher to- show
tne boy how TO get behind the ball in its
delivery, he looks though ne ought to
shine Vet in fast company.
This Year has been a poor one for Per
rN,n1n. Last season ne won eleven and
lost t'cht games for DanyilIc. his team
finishing last with a standing of 100 but
this YEAR. even with better team be
hand him most of the time, he has been
able To win only two out of the fourteen
games hc has figured in. Four times he
sas been hammered from the knoll
Many of his games have been very close
and three Of his defeats were when he
was with the Ddnville club
The sale OF Perry man to New York I'M
der the circumstances recalls the way
Red Kline happened TO be transferred
from LynchburG 10 Dauville back in 1905
In the summer of 1901 Kline at DanviIle
beat Jimmy I.ayinder now OF Chicago. l
10 %. in Il seventeen-inniug game which
Is still the record for long games in the
circuit. Soon after tina. Kline lost some
Df his effectiveness and control and the
next season Manager Grim after "A long
trial. hoping he would return 10 form
wrote Kline release. Going from his
room III his hotel To post the letter con-
tanning the slip, Grim was called to the
telephone boOtE. Imagine his surprise
when he was told that the D;inviiIe team
wanted Kline bad enough 10 pay 500 for
rs release Grim thought the matter
sell Kline, and he stayed there for aw lille
afterward pitching several successful sea-
sons IN the Blue Grass League.
When Or. Ayres. the Richmond re-
crult. kicks into a Washington uniform
Manager Griffith Will have for mis- con-
s!deration great. big six-footer who
weighs from his head TO his feet, fresh
from the mountains Of Carroll county
VINO mas made wonderful record with
the Richmond club. Ayres. medical
student was tipped off TO Manager Grif
nth when he vas practicng with his coll
leSe team, and he was induced to sign.
although several other teams were work
ing like beavers for his signature TO a
pink contract Since that Avres mas been
worked enough by the Richmond team
ITO put most youngsters to the bad for
ever. bat the more he works the stronger
ne seems 10 get Here's an Illustration:
In the ten days prior To and including
August :; the big fellow pitched six
games. winning five of them. In four
days earier-in July-he pitched in four
consecutive games and he won three of
them.
IL twenty-six games Ayres was on the
big side of sixteen of them. He lost
nine and pitched in fourteen inning af-
fair in which the score was = TO =. Three
times he was called on 10 go To the slab
with the score against his team and
each time he emerged with a victory to
his credit In only four games have
the opponents of Richmond been able TO
score more than three runs off his de-
livery, and the average number of runs
10 the game has been - He has yielded
an average of o. hits TO the game. In
213 innings he struck out 1l6 men and
walked only II batters, being able TO go
on the average of l0.i innings with but