Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
OK AVID SCENES IN YESTERDAYS BIG GAME AT GEORGETOWN
ADVERTISING is A KNOCK
TO A YOUNG BALL PLAYER
Recruit Breaking Into Big League as Larry
Chappeu Did Has Much Harder Time
Than Unheralded Youngster.

failed to come up to expectations. OF not
living up to advance notices OF his press
agents. Next year, perhaps, the rams
will have forgotten lot of the great
things Chappell was advertised as peing
able to perform, and his efforts to please
will be greeted with more approval
That the fabulous price paid for Chap
pell was the biggest knock that could
have been handed to him | know to be a
fact. During the latter part of the sea
son ! worked in a number of series with
the Chicago club. and was able to realize
under what a severe handicap the re-
cruit was laboring. In many of the cities
fans went to the games simply to look
over the much-touted wonder. Any time
he failed to get a hit or slipped up in
the field he was the recipient of the jeers
and jibes of the crowd.
So you're the thirteen-thousand- five
hundred-dollar lemon. was the over
worked expression any time Chappel
players could do the same thing
without word from the fans. ANY
one who ever attended ball game knows
fun Well the many cutting things fans
say that Chappell didn't miss any OF
them. Had Chappeil joined the Chicago
club unheralded. nothing would have beer
thought if he failed to deliver. but uh-
fortunately FOR Larry. he was greeted
with blare of trumpets.
Star or Near Star Is Handicapped.
That is the one unfortunate thing when
YOU are star. or simply touted as a star
you are always expected to deliver the
goods. Failure of the ordinary player tc
come through with a timely hit or sensa-
tional play in the field is passed owe.
lightly Let the star slip up in the pinch
and the tongues begin to wag at once
Lei yO1lnpSfpr fn h @
show without a reputation and the pitch
ers work on him bat little until they
realize he has batting ability. Let some
bush Lacquer join the big show. touted
az Lajoie or Cobb with the stick, and
Immediately the star pitchers and others
! not so famous go TO work on him. Ii in
stantly becomes their desire to impress
on the young man, well as the public
that the new recruit is simply human
Believe me. when the big lea que pitchers
throw In the high speed the batter has
his job cut OUT for him. Nothing illus
trates this fact any better than a re-
mark made TO me last summer by a
youngster who had Just joined the Wash
ngton club. He came from a fast minor
league and hit bit better than zoo In
the first game he played he struck out on
his three trips to the plate, managing
TO sneak IN one healthy foul AS he
struck out for the third time / noticed
that he stayed around the home plate
until the catcher got away
7 don't lcok very good at the plate,
do r. he asked I had to confess
that he didn't, but tried to make him
feel better by telling him that / once
saw Doc White strike on the great Ty
Cobb four times, and saw Ed Walsh
make the mighty Lajoie Whit thrice AS
the youngster started to take his place
III the field l remarked to him.
Don't be discouraged. it's the same
game up here as in the bushes. They
use the same kind of a bat and the
same. kind of ball.
Il realize that said the youngster
with smile. 'but with these pitchers
the bail looks a lot different No better
explanation could have been made of the
difference between the pitching in the
minors and the big show than the words
OF the recruit. that il was the same
ball. but looked different
Purchasing ball players is one of the
greatest lotteries ever established. Larry
Chappell cost $l3.5Go and Ty Con cost
$500 RUDE Maruuard cost SIT 500. while
Connie Mack got Eddie Plank. Chief
Bender and Jack Coombs for nothing
Marty O'Toole cost So 800. while Walter
Johnson was landed for car fare. Connie
Macks fnfield referred to as the sIOO OOO
quartet, cost him about $1,000 while
Frank Chance was forced to paw that
much for a promising young third base
man. II you had your choice you would
probably take the athletes who cost little
or nothing. II about to form a team. Yesl
Copyright, 1913. by W. q. EvansJ