Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18
WE|LMAN A WONDER
Hedges Grabs TWirIing Phe-
nom for Almost Nothing.
ONE SEASON IN MINORS
Pitching for the Maysville, KY,
Team When Discovered
by Scout Barrett.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 17.-Mr. Robert
E. Lee Hedges has time clock a wage
system. a lot of hands. a large plant.
Base ball players like Jack Powell and
Jimmie Williams, who have gone back
from Mr.. Hedges to the minor leagues,
say that Mr.. Hedges is running a factory
at Sportsman Park.
If ever Mr.. Robert E. Lee Hedges does
conduct a factory at Sportsmans Park
he can employ his tall and premier
pitcher, Carl Weiman. as a chimney.
He is tall enough. He has Smoke
enough
Mr.. Weilman is the tallest gent en-
gagged in the lucrative occupation OF
"curving them over to batters at the
rate of about $40 curve.
He Is @ feet SO inches tall in his silk
hose. He would not think Of permitting
himself to be measured in his bare feet.
some say he is too modest. others that
his pedal extremities are not pretty.
Mr.. Weilman enjoys the unique dis
tinction of having broken into the big
leagues practically without any prep
aration in the minors.
He did one season in the Blue Grass
League. which is on a par with any
other bush or 'tall-grass'' combina-
ton. Then he leaped into the American
Ibid you find 1t very different when
You faced the great hitters of the big
leagues?" the reporter asked Weilman.
Well. no. not much difference" said
the Human Giraffe only this: The
rubes' In the bushes hit the wild pitch
ers better than any of the great hit
tiers, except Lajoie."
Oddly enough. speaking of factories.
shops. Weilman. r. K. l.. Hedges. etc.
to r<h hot NJ Nv
Hedges came to st. Louis from the same
small town in Ohio. Hamilton, which
was recently sorely hit by floods.
Two years ago Carl was playing first
base for the Hamilton amateur team.
Betimes. Sundays, he was pitching bn 4
semi-professional team at Liberty. Ind.
Anon he took up base ball. at a. profes.
sion and began with Maysville. KY, in
1912
There he attracted the attention OF
other and the profession as 'fvory
hunters" so-called for the reason that
much of the stuff they find is more suit
able for the making OF billiard balls than
of base ball players.
These solitary going and solitary COM
ing. lonely looking gentlemen are called
scouts" by the base ball reporters
Their function is to prowl about the
weeds on the lots and discover players
suitable for use by the great base ball
leagues.
The scouts" or ivory hunters" as
they call themselves. say that 1.-The
amount of solid bone or ivory in the
heads OF the youth OF the United States.
the grandest. greatest, finest country
In the world. quite spoils most young
men for purposes of playing base ball.
See the joker
Well. the tall grass or the taller tim
Der down Maysville. KY, way could not
hide the Tall Sycamore of the Wa
BASH" especially when the eagle optic
of one c. Barrett. ivory hunter" par
excellence dscoverer of the "Inhuman
Fly Trap" Gustavus Adolphus Williams,
was peering in the lush and the lew.
So, when last autumn Carolus Barrett.
esq.,. ivory hunter" and miner Of ma
terial for bone dust factories. popped a
'.peeper" and laid lamp on Carl Well
man he "cottoned' to him tight.
Carl had a way of getting up on his
toes, towering to his topmost towers
and then, with high overland motion.
throwing balls down on top OF the bat
tiers.
1t was like a giant pitching off ten
story building at poor duck batting
in cellar.
The batter feels something like the
frog in the pond when the bad boys are
rocking him.