The chronicle=news., 1913-03-06
BIG LEAGUES ALL
HAVE BLACK LISTS

| Iu.re are toudy III Nhe tHteu
States and cnvirons some - men 10
whom the doors. windows. fire es-
capcs and every other more OF In
gress 10 organized baseball. save
perhaps the turnssiies. are barred.
Organizcd baseball rarely. II ever.
bars anybody from the pay-as-yOu-
enter opening. writes Damon Run
yon.
Som. OF these oa young men are
young and others are not 50 Young
Us they used to be. hut they are kin
In common cause-they are the
Brothers OF the Blacklist. True. or
xanized baseball sOftens the asper-
ties OF the term by calling IL the.
Ineligible list. hut is nonc the less.
u blacklist. and those entered there
on are isbarred from earning liv-
inS In amy league under the juris-
diction OF the baseball powers. Just
as cffectually as II they were In jail.
| II doesn't make lot of difference.
at that, because II appears that
most OF those blacklistcd or declared
passed their period Of baseball use
fuiness. or never displayed enough
talent TO get anybody wildly excited
strated time and again that any real
star who gets In bad with organized
baseball can eusily secure relnstatc-
mcnt.
Every club In the National league
has one Or more on the Ineligible
Iis,. but only three clubs In the
American have put up the bars on
the players. and the total In the
L. ID
York Americans have declared one
iblc. while the Giants have posted r.
Shore and W. \. Torrey.
| Hendricks IL IA huge lcfthandcr
who WAS dug up ut Benton Hurbor.
Mich. by Crazy" schmidt. and was
tried out In Marlin In 1910. lie
showed some promise. but when Me-
Graw tried to send him to Newark
he lcapcd out OF organized ball and
has since been pitching In scmi-p, 0
cocpany around his home town.
Monte Pfyl has almost been forgot
ten by the fans. II was years uRo
tnat he hoppcd TO the Csiifornia
loutlaws. and II has been some time
since he has been regarded ax u ser.
viccablc bail plpayer. especially for
"a big league club.
Young Shore IL cadaverous
youth who came to the Giants last
season from u North Carolina col.
icxc. He gained distraction fer he.
Ing pounded for ten runs In one In
Ming OF u game at Boston. McGraw
intended sending Shore to indianup-
, oils for development. but the Ions
, youth got homesick. aud IL now bach
home. Torrey has been on tn.
Giant Ineligible list for several
years. He Il . ,younsxter who va,
taken south one year. but got sici
: with typhoid and has never returned
to organized baseball.
The Boston Nationals have black,
listed W. d. Jones, Barney Joy uud
Fuller Thompson. The latter IL q
young pitcher ~ho was once with
the Giants u short time. Joy ''a 9
aKnaka, from Honolulu, who Great.
ed sensation on the Pacific eoust,
but who would never report to Hos
ton when he was bought. lie 3 now
In Honolulu. ~.
Brooklyn contributes Tommy
sheehan. who ieaped to the ,oas;
outlaws years ago. TO tn list. and
Cincinnati donates e. +. Dahlyrcc:,,
young pitcher. whom Joe Tinker
IL trying now to whip into linz.
Charles Murphy has turned Vic vii.
lis.
Doc" Scan1an. the former Brook
lvn pitcher. who was traded to
philadelphia for Eddie Stack. is
biack1istcd by the Phiilies. Pitts
burSh has declared Ineligible L.. r.
Nelson. Thomas NJ. Quiglcy and
George Sissler. all recruits, wbilo
st. Louis OF the National league has
put the ban on e. NJ. Euright, Earl
Hennis and Piddington.
Pat DouSherty. Fielder Jones, T..
Lange and Martin Walsh are ali In
eligibles OF the Chicago White Sox.
Jones is now president of the North
western league. 80 is apparently in
eligible only US bail player.
Walsh Is brother Of the redou bt-
able Ed. Tile st. Louis Browns con.
Tribute c. K. Brown. Il pitcher,
while Boston. cleveland, Detroit,
Philadelphia and Wash iugton have
none at all.
N A lot of ineligibles Of the past
have been lost from the list. Ap.
parently It was decided that there
was no chance OF their making good
II they did. Fred Glade, the former
Yankee pitcher. and Doc" Hide
Brand. the onc.tiuie Princeton star.
used to appear on the New York list
but they are there no longer.