Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-03
|NEAYESY OF THIRD BASEMEN
Larry" Gardner Of the Cham
pion Red sox Team.
Icuu,sr vermont hoy II Described ~
| .sr,u, Niurnane A. One Of the Most
MILITANT stars in the Base-
ball world.

n N,rnane, the baseball expert.
,ritos as ollows in the Boston Sunday
1,obc. TIE story of William Lawrence
Gardner, baseball career is a simple
mo TO baseball he is known as Larry
;ardne. but his good parents were so
,roud of their bright baby boy that
hev named him after a good old-fash-
onef minister.
t,rry Gardner first saw the light at
E,r,sburg Falls. VT He picked UP the
r,liments of baseball on the town lot,
nd was the best player on his school
cam. Later he vert to the University
BIZ Vermont at Burlington. and with
Ray Collins, their star pitcher. Gardner
iivided the baseball honors Mt the col
ege.
John l. Taylor sent his scouts to Bur-
ington and some time before graduating
both Collins and Gardner had decided to
enter the profession and come to the Bos-
on Red Sox.
/ doubt If either player would have
AIKEN up professional baseball, except
% play with summer teams. but for
the offer they received to come to Bos-
ton.
The Boston club always appealed to
better for the presence of these two
boys from the Vermont University. In
TACT. they stand with the first dozen
great ball players turned out by New
England, and New England has furnished
The finest line of baseball goods.
At the close of each season Larry
Gardner takes the first train back to his
pld home. close TO the Canadian line. to
spend the winter with his family and
friends, and no wandering boy Is more
cordially welcomed back to the scenes
cf his childhood
EARNED OUT TO LYNN.
After coming to Boston Gardner was
EARNED out to Lynn for season. and
was regarded as clever. hard hitting
second baseman and he made this his
regular position after returning to Bos-
ton. 1t was only last year that Man
ager Patsy Donovan discovered that
Gardner would make n good third base
man. Harry Lord had left the team.
and several men were tried out at that
corner and found wanting. In the mid
die of the season Gardner was shifted to
third, and 10 and behold. Donovan had
discovered the ideal man for the position.
Gardner looked so good to Jimmie
McAleer that he was picked as OF
the team that was to give the Athletics
tuning up for the big post season
series last year
Gardeners work was the sensation OF
that series, which the picked team won
Gardner was always natural hitter
This season he is batting above 300 and
stands among the leading American
League players for driving in runs. Hi
consistent long drives In the importan
games have been fully appreciated by thu
members Of his own team for they hav'
come at times when the other players
we're off in their hitting, and Larry FIRE
luently sent men home from first base
He has gradually developed his play a
third base until he stands to-day at tn,
head Of all third basemen of the presen
time. His running left hand pickups re
mind the old timers OF the best work O.
Jerry Denny. No man ever had better
left hand. His throwing is simply perfec
ton.
Neither Billy Nash nor Ezra Sutton
had anything on Gardner when it came
TO throwing across the diamond, ant
the best of it is that there is no diff
culty in holding his thrown balls
HE TRIES FOR EVERYTHING.
He faces the hardest kind of chances
often hitting the dirt to block a fierc'
drive along the ground toward thirt
base.
He is cool and collected at all times
He stands five feet ten inches an,
weighs lCS pounds. Players never at
tempt to take fall out Of the Vernon