The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-02
Concerning Pen
nant Winners
Darby O'Brien Has Given Duluth Sec.
ond Team OF Flag Grabbers.
(Bv Bruce.l

Ond Team Of Flag GrabberS.
tBy Bruce.)
Duluth, Sept. 2.-The White sox
have cinched the flag. The boys have
played good baseball all of the season,
have remained out in front despite
all Of the difficulties hat have beset
the team.
Darby O'Brien. Sam Meniece.
Mugs McGraw, Lucella Sours. Har-
vey Bluhm, Teddy Leber, Hardy Har-
grove Cy Bennett, Elmer Miller. Ed
die Stark. RUDE Johnson. Sally Hoff-
mann. Bingo Bracket. Bob Woman
these are the men on the team at
the end of the season.
During the entire race some of the
others on the Sox team were Popham,
Erickson, Sweeney, johnson, q pitch
er, and several others. But the regu-
lars who are on the team at the pres
ent time are the soldiers who have
done most of the hard fighting
throughout the campaign.
: Harvey Bluhm. the tall, 1.-the and
clcar-cut r%ed-headed youth who
guards the first base in so handy a
manner is without doubt the bets
inc by all odds the greatest first
baseman that the Duluth team has
ever had.
John Ness. who afterwards was
tried by Detroit, was a great player
for the minors, and the same goes
for Merry McCrone, when his hitting
is taken into consideration. But
neither Of the two men mentioned
a field the sack the way the red
head has been doing the present sea-
son.
Darby o'Brien deserves all the
credit in the world for landing the
second flag for Duluth. His first
year here IS manager he copied the
coveted g%onfalon. Since that time
his plans were somewhat interfered
with. and he was not given free rein.
The present season he vas told to go
ahead and get the team. He used
his own judgment and was not cross
ed, n he has won.
Darby a Fighter.
The Irishman is a fighter and he
knows the game. He treats his play
ers fairly, and as a consequence he
gets the work out OF them. That
he has got the very best out of his
men is proven by the standing of he
team. Look at Winnipeg.
Lucella Sours has been the hitting
kid the present season. He has made
errors at short, tits true. but he is an
out1elder and was pressed into serv-
ice to fill the gap at the shortf1eld
position. Always in the game. al
ways up there at bat to get n when
a bingle was needed. Lucella is the
kind Of a player that endears him.
self to the fans. and it is not at all
strange that his coming to the plate
at a pinch has generally beer greet
ed with applause.
Smuggling Sam.
| Large Sam Meniece has had the
year of his life With the war club.
The tall boy has literally torn the
cover off the ball. 1t has been his
terrific and timely hitting all of the
season that has kept the team up
there in front. Much of the credit
for winning of the pennant goes to
Sam. for he has sure clouted the
/ presest season.
Ted Leber is another of the wreck
ing crew. Sours. Meniece. Leber and
McGraw are the -four wreckers. The
hitting of these men has been the
Little Eva has been there with both
spiked feet the present season. hitting
at times when hits have often turned
the tide of the anne
, McGraw has had one of the best
seasons of his career. His hitting
and fielding have been big factors in
h winning of the golden gonfalon.
and O'Brien will tell you the same.
Hargrove is another that is justly
entitled to a lot of credit. The old
boys work does not shine like the
diamond. but the members of the
team know that it is his directing
Of the pitching that has much to do
with the winning. He, like Lisette.
last year with Superior. knows the
hitters and what they don't want.
On Firing Line.
johnson. Strak. Hoffman and Wor-
man have been the men who ohave
been out on the firing line during the
greater part of the year. AT the
start of the season Woman pitched
the game of his life. Later he slump
ed some. out he has been n of the
twirlers to hon great credit must
and effective throughout the year.
and during the greater part Of the
season Sally Hoffman has won most
of his games. Eddie Stark has pitch
ed some brilliant ball since joining
the Sox and must be given credit for
helping bring the pennant this way.
Bracket Joined the team near the
games has shown real goods. The
close Of the season and in his few
game he pitched against Winnipeg
here was one Of the best pieces of
pitching that has been seen in the
league during the present season.
Cy Bennett and Elmer Miller came
on later. Doc was just beginning to
clout the ball when he broke his IN
kle. His playing after he started to
hit was the feature of every game.
Miller's services were taken from the
team just at a time when they were
most seeded, making 1t unfortunate
for both h plaer n the team.
GILDERSLEEVE WINS CUP. '
Ninn. Sent. &c. F..