Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-05
GRIMES AND BURNS
TO Be DETR0|IERs
PITCHER AND FIRST 5AsEMAN
ARE SOLD TO TIGER OWNER
BY MANAGER EGAN.
MAY GO AT ONCE.
Deal 10 Completed Upon Receipt OF
Telegram From Navln Of Mich
iaAn ciub-TWo Good
Men Lost.

The first graduates of the Central
association this year are Pitcher Burlie
A. Grimes, winner Of eleven straight
victories, and against whom no scores
were made In twenty.nine and ONE
third consecutive innings, and First
Baseman George H. Burns, demon
swatter of the Ottumwa club. The
pair are youngsters In organized base.
ball, this being their first year out.
They we're purchased by the Detroit
club and the consideration, conditional
upon their making good, was $4,000
down with an additional $500 for each
player II he remains the balance Of
the season as Tiger, The players are
subject to immediate delivery.
Both Grimes and Burns have been
carefully scrutinized for the past two
weeks by~ Scouts James Mcclure Of
Detroit, James Murphy of the Cubs, DR..
q. Harry White Of the Sox, Charley
Barrett of the st. Louis Americans,
and Chick Fraser Of the Pittsburgh
club. The message clinching the serv-
ices of Grimes and Burns for Detroit
was received last night by Manager
Il. F. Egan from Owner F. J. Navin.
The sale will create sensation In
the Central association due to, the fact
| that 1t is the first graduation exer-
! cises, and the further fact that in the
case of Burns, faux paus, whatever
that means, was made by T. G. Hayden
of the Burlington club. who sold Burns
to Egan for 5000.
Grimes 10 Conner.
Pitcher Grimes comes of baseball
family, being the son Of A. B. Grimes
OF Clear Lake, Wis. who formerly
played the old sport In the days when
Ned Egan was one OF he best players
on the northern lots. Young Grimes
was born in Clear Lake August g.,
1898, and Is now only nineteen and a
half years old. He played amateur
ball with The Clear Lake team previous
to last season, when he signed with
the Eau Claire club in the Minny lea
que. He was there two months, win
ming eight and losing four battles. He
averaged ten strikeouts to game, and
hit 1913 for the pair of months.
When the Minny league was over
come by a lack Of financial sustenance,
Grimes found himself out of job, and
he went to Austin. Mimi, to amuse the
natives. He pitched the balance Of the
season there, playing games on Thurs
days and Sundays and holidays. His
record for the season was eighteen
wins and one loss, an average of thir.
teen strikeouts to game, and in one
tussle he made the unusual record of
whiting twenty-one batters. This feat
was against the Preston, Mimi, club.
He possesses fast ballthat splits fire,
a change OF pace that has proved con-
fusing to opponents In the Central, and
splitter that is controlled like duti-
full child. He employs his right hand
In the box and with the stick, and In
fielding his territory In the skinned
soil, he takes everything whether it
bears the union label or other marks
Of merit. Mr.. Grimes is Ave feet, ten
and one-half inches In the air and owns
$50 pounds Of athletic prowess. He
occasionally smiles while working In
the box. His parents are farmers, and
he Is good to them.
Burns an ohIoan.
First Baseman Burns first saw the
United States in a small village lab
eled Hes, Ohio. This memorial event
happened on the flag end of cruelty
cold January In 1893. To be precise 1t
was the 31st day of the month. Big
George went to grammar school and
had one year In high school, but the
course in pastiming was not on the
curriculum His hrst baseball expert
ence was gained, or rather his first
baseball abilities were seen, onr<he
Temple business college club OF Phila-
delphia in 1910. OF course he played
the corner lot kind OF pastiming, but
real games he never played until the
Philly business college used him as a
catcher. The following year Burns
signed with the Cameron City club in
the Delaware county Penn, league,
playing first base in sixty games and
snacking the ball at 400 rate. Cliff
ton Heights, Penn, In the same lea
que, secured him In 1912, and In thirty
five games he covered first base with
a fielding average Of 1872 and clubbing
mark Of 1893. While 80 employed,
Harry Wolverton, then with the New
tYork Yankees. watched him work, and
was so impressed with the antics at
bat OF the giant that he promised to
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