Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-23
SWAP BALL PLAYERS
Mack Gives Four Men and
SIS, 900 for Murphy and Walsh.
LORD AND DERRICK TO GO
The Other Pair Is Shawkey and
Danforth-Dunn Building Up a
Team for Next Year.
ORD AND DERRICK TO GO

BALTIMORE. Nd, August S.-Jack
Dunn and Connie Mack put over the
greatest deal of the season yesterday
when the Oriole magnate traded Eddie
Murphy and Jimmy Walsh to the world s
champions for Bris Lord, Claude Der
rick, Bob Shawkey, Dave Danforth and
purse of 5000
The deal was made yesterday after
noon in Philadelphia. and the men viii
change uniforms Sunday. Mack is de-
termined to make one last stand for the
American League pennant, and he be-
lieves Murphy and Walsh can help him
out. Even should Connie fail in this last
move, he will have two of the best. young
outfe!ders ever seen in a major league
to start of with next season, and he
knows it.
As the wheel has turned, Dunn is the
winner. The four players he will receive
from the Athletics could not have been
purchased for less than $4,000 and the
5000 cold cash brings the sum total to
$50. 600 at least.
experience. While he has been regarded
as a 300 hitter. he is not as fast on the
bases as Walsh. However, Rris is a
great fielder and a wonderful thrower
SO he will fit into left field in fine style
Derrick is the very man Dunn has
had trouble landing a good third base
man. Derrick is all of that and then
some. He is young, can hit, has lots of
speed. and is corking fielder. No one
need ask the value Of Shawkey or Dan
forth The former has pitched grand
base ball here all year and Dunn could
sell him tomorrow for $1,000 or $1,000.
DanfIrth is ripe. He had hard time
getting his start in this league, but he
is now hitting the ball spots with pleas
ing regularity.
About Murphy and Walsh little can be
told the public. The fans have followed
the youngsters this season with delight.
The catching and splendid all-around
work of Walsh have not been equaled by
any other outfie!der in the league. In fact.
no man In the world has ever made more
difficult catches than Walsh. and the
prettiest feature of his playing is that he
never throws a ball to the wrong spot.
He is one of the best men in the world
at cutting off hits and runs.
Murphy, while not such a finished
player, is one Of the best lead-off men in
the country. He gets on the base lines
and gets around with the run. That is
average with the stick proves he gets to
first often enough.
During this year Walsh and Murphy
have always been well about the 800
mark in batting and have been fighting
neck-and-neck for the leadership of the
circuit.
In Murphy, Mack will get the very man
he wants. He needs q lead-Of man badly.
That Is the reason his team has not been
winning Lord was out of the game for a
good while and is not great lead-off
man at best. Collins and Baker do well
enough with the stick, but Maggert, Lord
and Barry have shown that they do not
get on first often enough to be driven
in by the long hits of Frank Baker.
Baker is now leading the country for
driving in runs, but had Murphy led off
all season for the Athletics Frank would
have more glory to his credit.
In Walsh Mack will get another clean
up hitter of the type Of Baker. Mack
needs that type OF hitter for he has lost
Danny Murphy. So Walsh will take Muir
phys place and Murphy will be an inn
provement on his former lead-off men.
The new men will play their first game
with the Athletics next Monday, when the
champions line up agains Detroit in
Philadelphia. Lord and Derrick will play
for the Orioles Sunday In Montreal.
This grand smash-up of a worlds
championship club at such critical stage
of a pennant chase is almost unparalleled
in base ball. But some desperate step
must be taken to win the pennant for
the Athletics, and Mack feels that he has
figured it OUT correctly. 1t is a safe bet
that every Baltimore fan will now watch
the Athletics box scores with even
deeper interest than ever before.