The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-01-24
YOUNGSTERS IN THE Big
LEAGUES ARE TREATED
WELL, SAYS CHOUIAARO
His Experience With White Sox
Has Been at All Times
Pleasant
LIKES MATTY MCINTYRE
Says His Disposition Is the
Kind That He Admires
in a Man
Nv RALPH 1. YoNkER.

IUuukEter6 In the dig leagues aEo
|fe1fed q great deal better than they
1cd 10 be. according to Phil Chouin'
md. q White Sox outfielder who broke
ITO the majors with the chicago
I0uch in the fall OF 1910 Contrary TO
Ne experiences of some OF the old
Imcrs who met with chilling recep-
Tons when they first began to associ-
1<e with the big fellows, Chouinard
/o1lnd everybody willing TO help him.
Pat Dougherty was the best friend
had among the White Sox," said
<,houinard. in his dressing room, at
[n& Miles, last night just after ne
6nd received hand for singing
0oorge Moriarty's latest song, Re
member me to my old Gal. Fat
uoad To tell me Just where TO play Tor
6very man that came TO bat and he
1nme me q lot of hints about batting.
An the other fellows on the team did
M they could to help me. / don't see
where these fellows who are kicking
ntout the treatment they receive at
the hands OF the big leaguers get
their license.
sOf all the men on the White Sox
team I admire Matty Mcintyre more
than sany other. admire him more
for HIS qualities as a man than as
ball player. He surely Is some ball
nIayer and I don't see how Chicago
ever got him away from the Tigers,
but he In even a better good-fellow
,fhan ne il q ball player. like his dis
rosItion His quiet. unassuming ways
. strike my fancy"
Chouinard played his first game OK
major league baseball In Detroit, q
xoar ago last fall, working In left
p. 49, 10 ton NJ ha wing
the strongest and most accurate arm
~ any OF the young infielders who
have pranced into the big ring. In the
fIrst came he played in big company
Eo remembers stopping Cobb twice
On his attempts to score from second
~ ouffleId drives. The work Of his
nfl1rdy wing has won him much ap
olauss from the Chicago stands.
Jake Schaefer, q partner Of Chouin-
ard In the Garden City Trio, who
eines under the good old German
name OF O'Neill, claims, or admits,
second cousinship to Germany Schaef-
IL. He comes from the colony OF
kchaefors I'm Chicago, all OF whom are
related more or less distantly and
range I'm wealth and social position
up 10 the millionaire class.
II had q bunch that Germany was
Going INTO vaudeville last winter. l
met Herman on car, late at night.
IN Chicago, and for the first time that
can remember. he was serious.
= Jake he said, do you think
could make good on the stager
5 don't know how much of a crime
committed when I assured him that
he would DO whole farce In HIM
tCharley O'Leary has done more to
make high-brow OF Germany than
ANYBODY else. Both or them used to
play on semi-pro team In Chicago.
I'm to. the time Schaefer met Charley
he used to SLOUGH out to the bah game
Of 4 Sunday, in q soft shirt, turned In
III the throat, without coat and hat.
Charley taught him how to wear
linen collar, and spruced him up to a
regular diamond studded swell.
+Schaef doesn't know a serious
moment In baseball. With the score
tied. two out, man on third and
whale at bat. he's got to have three
OF four minutes of kidding. Why, over
in Chicago, Cantillon used to keep
him with him just for the fun OF the
thing. He used to use Schaef for
tonic.
put Hughie Jennings on the coach
ing line at first and Germany Schaef-
or nj third and its worth double the
price OF admission to see those two.
II Detroit could succeed in getting
the Washington outflelder for the
liners again, they wouldn't need to
worry shout winning games TO draw
crowds. They could use Hughie and
Cormany.
III don't suppose they let him do
HE prize stunt any more, but In the
<rndlots at Chicago, his favorite was
10 turn handsprings from third TO
home on his home runs"
ID would be shame to inform Ac-
/or Jake Schaefer that his second
<o.1sin has three dots, thus: :.
whore the statistician is supposed to
record the home runs in the Official
cords for last year. No Germany
HASN'T completed the circuit with any
I.endsprings. lately.
over In Chicago, Callahan Is going
/o have q bunch OF big fellows for
Ma pitching star. Six-foot talent will
not be lacking. In fact, no premium
Is offered for men OF tall, rangy
<t,riety, as the big six" squad Is SO
~el filled at present that the dreaded
:.rilnlng knife will have to come into
rl1y before the season is many days
cid. IL the six-foot mark were the
limit, two more, White and Scott
could be included. but the quartet
tomposed OF Walsh, Benz, Hovlik and
Delhi. claims even more. They are
bona fde six feet one inch athletes
and some besides.
New York has q peculiar situation
in regard 70 pitchers. The Americana
WIN be long on freak pitchers as Man
aver Wolverton has on his roster -four
tp.tters, In Ford, Fisher, Quinn and
Mcconnell, q slugger In Caldwell, an
rnderhand hurler In Warhop and 4
touihpaw an Vaughn. Ford Is the
only outand-out splitter, but Fisher
has not much else and Mcconnell and
Quinn use II I'm the plnches.
Iusf 20 the contrary, Manager Nc
Gray. Of the Nationals, has not a spit
11ll pitcher anons his hurlers. Nc
.f4H VIII not stand for any Of hit
pitchers using the moist delivery
bugs Raymond n the only outand-oui
<rIticr that has ever drawn HE salsry