Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-23
INTERNATIONAL LEACUERS
DO SOME XMAS TRADING;
RUDOLPH SOLD BY LEAFS
Butcher Schmidt Sent to Rochester by Jack
Dunn--Kid Mueller May Play Infield
Next Season.

International Leaguers had busy
time during the past week, two in
teresting deals having been consum-
mated and another batch of fine
fresh rumors put into circulation to
keep the dyed-in- the-wool fan at ease
during the long winter intermissior
between acts.
The most important transaction
was the sale of Dick Rudolph, the
leagues star pitcher, to Cincinnati.
The Toronto champs cleaned some-
thing like $500 for Dicks services.
The second swap was also a cash
deal. Big Butch" Schmidt, the
heavyweight first sacker, who held
down the first base pedestal in Oriole-
Vile for two or three seasons but
outlived his usefulness with Balti-
more fans, has been sold to Roches-
ter. Schmidt is a player of no mean
ability, but the Monumental City
fans did not like his style, and the
bleacherites were always ready last
season to pan him for alleged bone
head plays. Schmidt's work natural
ly deteriorated under the CALLING fire
of adverse comment, and he played
far more brilliantly on the road than
at home.
That Schmidt is a valuable ball
player is quite evident from the fact
that the crafty Jawn Camel plucked
him for his Rochester outfit John
is now ready to dispose of Spencer,
who has failed to develop in the way
Camel hoped he would. John car
- II.
hoping that Red would develop a
hitting streak, but his batting efforts
We're always ephemeral.
Kelley Reorganizing Team.
Joe Kelley has lost several MEM
bers of his Toronto Club, which won
2 the championship last season, and it
was supposed that he would hang on
10 Rudolph, his best pitcher, but Gin
oinnati made such an alluring offer
for Ruddy that Kelley consented to
allow his clever youngster to advance
in his profession. Rudolph is entitled
: to another trial in big league COM
pany, and should make good this
time. He was rated as a better
pitcher than Tesreau when the pair
worked side by side on the Maple
Leaf staff. He led the league this
year, and did more than any other
Toronto pitcher to bring the flag to
the Canucks.
Mueller to Play Shortstop.
Joe Kelley is talking about trying
Kid Mueller, the Egg Harbor phenom,
at shortstop next season, when the
champions hit Macon for spring train
ing. The kid did not have very sue
cessful season On the mound but has
always given brilliant promise as a
utility infielder. The kids fault during
late years has been his propensity to
start out and pitch at top speed from
the first inning, using everything he
has, curve balls and fast ones, in
rtead of outstanding his strength.
Along about the sixth inning he
weakens and then the Toronto infield-
ers and outf1elders have been treated
to all kinds of hard endurance tests,
the outf1elders doing marathons and
the infielders ducking cannon shots,
Eippers and scorching grasshoppers.
Dick Rudolph, who is one of the
hrainiest youngsters who ever showed
his hoof into spiked shoe, tried to
coach the kid time and again, but he
was a failure. Mueller has not had a
really successful season on the slab
since he broke in with the Newark
Club under George Stallings, in 1908.
=. Stallings had the right dope in ham