The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-10
cHElEI|'
N|A|NsTAY 1El
Gets Start in Kan.
Was Twice Sen. s
to Minors
USES THE spl,
Is 27 Years Old I'd \.
Big League Care, /.
fore Him.

"V oil LndL trlD tn NJ.
possessed OILY a fast I I15
boasted a great curve paI
he had he could moi ls5sSa 5S
appeared in practisa t.? Z
Jones, White Sox n,srsa'! ss
ney was sent back bv XII
to Bartlesville, Ok, wbsrs''
|, Cheney was destined i I.
by another major less,'u, ~ 2 :,
he finally ltarrived. . m;
spring Of 1910, when b. ~
fever at Hot Springs w;fS m y: S 7
Il Reds, who had secursS n
dianapolis in the fall oi = 1Ss
returned to the Hous;a,,' ~; !;
germs lurked in his systss y
apolis asked waivers.
fused to waive. Larry "a ~ i,
ter" won nineteen sns g.
games that season, and And 4. /.
were hopeless tailendgs.
A Kansas Product.
That jinx which tvic. =.
back to the minors thrsst..
crate against him on his 81,
anee. Secured from Louis7'S
Cubs in the fall Of 1911 s. n
won his first game aFa;si (
5 to 0. In the eieht6 Son.
| from Wheat's bat broke {
his pitching hand. 80.
Despite this mishap. Ns,,u
Chance thought he deieels3
pitching greatness in n,
Chances Judgment was NJ
year, when Cheney becans n
pitcher of the Cub slab staif
ingness to work in and ami 4
earned him the nicknsus
Moose, y borrowed from II /
the White Sox, from whu1 i
his first pointers.
Cheney likes to WORK
claims he is not at his best n
given plenty of slabbinr. h
no occasion to complain of +
worked often enough vhIs
Cubs.
Lawrence Russell Cheney
on May g, 1886, at psllsyil
where his father is a buildirl
tor, His mother died sir ];
Three sisters are living IL b
Larry attended the publ
playing ball on the lots, a1i
tering high school became 4
catcher, for pitching was Z
complishment, Belleville . "
team soon attracted more tlr
tention, but Larry was conp@
fuse outside offers for rsgilr
ment because of his isthtr'i
to baseball as a profession.
worked with his father ut ~
ing business in summer al
lowed to play baseball ul \
Cheney, ST., since Laryt
the majors, is q rampant
But the success Of ths Bil!
was not without its exclil1s
Following a victory cSn
Neb., the Kansans wsra ~!
and had a drive OF fifteen y
country to catch q tran a
stay in the same town wiz I
ated rooters.
Upon his graduation iron :
when 20 years old, Chen'%
rnended to Manager Nek
Topeka Western leagle en-
Heck, an old catcher, vho l'l
work. Cooley advised CaE
pitching and loaned hin 2
vile club Of the 0khle
league until he should ssso!
perience. Through sons
the baseball rules or tecln13
and when Cheney Jumpen
and rejoined Topeka hs ~
back by the national boaN
The Cubs Mainstay.
Possessing only q fast 9
time, Cheney was theggm
for n trial by the ChicaG
and learned the rudims1t.
pitching as previously = feiiI,
turning to Bartlesvils
pitched his club 10 the 81
He remained with Bartl.ss.n
and was secured BY INDIA
fall, a. ~
Cheney jumped into ~ .. +
sociation limelight at oles
nineteen and losing ten
which had a percentage I n
500. In 1910 he won OILY
twelve in the league raes, M
released to Louisville y A.,
ended the season with : - ~ "a
teen won and eleven lo's
tho Cubs in the falLs =, IA
With the Cub pitching -
last year, Cheney. eees. .s. y
mainstay and finished Ias as.s
a record of twenty'sn -
s-aIva Ioet This marx
by a fractional nisIs'es ns esr,1i}|
dirk of Pittshurg WIN tn. ,shj, q
and nine lost. So tar ~ 4,
has a percentage asoaru a. . atruaaE ~
and this includes me 'Vss ~ ~
I Larry ar is sent against e. !ns Y, iIs
While relying cpighas .hs'r 10 u
Cheney now mixes lnsI sssrft y
casional curve aud l,;. ? Isiit IhsrIsit
fool the batsmen. his y. fssiIr.
inches. M makes him me H. 80 -
ranry laGGSS' type so gssI genera, ISs,bih
his excellent n.asn,ur3, l>r
long tenure on tne r'' !.
dent. .v-,ed in ~
Edna Smiley Of ~
mas one son, Larrsh psn'
old. His o.pss os.spo.aers e
srty consists OF . TEs;ss 2
yrsJpefTuit ,rsJ ranch at y, ssIsssti;
Ind an interest IN ~ ~ tiiy
1abitants. Cheney n STsg
,wn the company, sIre.nils
franchise for a I'VE y
abroad :. ;utsrd p ~
business pursuits