Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

and environs some twenty-five men 10
whom the doors, windows, lire escapes
and every other mode of ingress to Or
ganized base ball. save perhaps the turn
stiles are barred. Organized base ball
rarely, if ever. bars anybody from the
pay-as-you-enter opening.
Some of these twenty-five men are
young and others are not so young as
they used to be. but they are kin In
common cause-they are the brothers Of
the blacklist.
True organized base ball softens the
asperities of the term by calling it the
ineligible list. but it is none the less
a blacklist, and those entered thereon
are debarred from earning a living in
any league under the jurisdiction of
the base ball powers as effectually as IT
they were in Jail.
1t doesn't make n lot of difference At
that, because it appears that most of
those blacklisted or declared ineligible
are men who have either passed their
period of base ball usefulness or never
displayed enough talent to get anybody
wildly excited about them. 1t has been
demonstrated time and again that any
real star who gets in bad with organized
base ball can easily secure reinstatement.
National League Leads.
Every club in the National League has
one or more on the ineligible list, but
only three clubs in the American have
put up the bars on players. and the total
in the younger league is but six. The
New York Americans have declared one
T. Elliott a young infielder, Ineligible
while the Giants have posted Ed Hem
bricks, NJ. C. Pfyl, Ernest G. Shore and
w. A. Torrey.
Hendricks is huge left-hander who
was dug up at Benton Harbor. Mich, by
Crazy Schmidt. and was tried out by
the Giants at Marlin in 1910. He showed
some promise, but when McGraw tried
to send him to Newark he leaped out of
organized ball and has since been pitch
ing in semi-professional company around
his home town.
Monte Pfyl has almost been forgotten
by the fans. 1t was years ago that he
hoped to the California outlaws. and
it has been some time since he has
been regarded as serviceable bail play
er. especially for "A big league club.
Young Shore is a cadaverous youth
who came to the Giants last season from
North Carolina college. He gained dis
tinction for being pounded for ten runs
in one inning of game at Boston.
McGraw intended sending Shore to In
dianapolis for development but the long
youth got homesick and is now back
home. Torrey has been on the Giant in
eligible list for several years.
He is a youngster who was taken south
one year. but got sick with typhoid and
has never returned to organized base
ball.
Boston Blacklisted Three.
The Boston Nationals have blacklisted
W. D. Jones, Barney Joy and Fuller
Thompson. The latter is young pitcher
who was once with the New York Ma
tionals a short time. JOY is a kanaka
from Honolulu, who created a sensation
on the Pacific coast, but who would never
report to Boston when he was bought.
He is now i'll Honolulu.
Brooklyn contributes Tommy Sheehan.
who leaped to the coast outlaws years
ago, to the list, and G ncinnati donates {.
+. Dahlereen, young pitcher Whom Joe
Tinker is trying now to whip into line.
Charles Murphy has turned in Orvie
Overall and Vic Willis. the most noted
of the whole National list. Orvle IS sad
TO be trying to do a comeback, but Vic
has long ago passed into privote me- and
is running hotel in Wilmington, Del
Doc Scanion, the former Brooklyn
pitcher, who was traded to Philadelphia
for Edd e Stack. is blachlisted by the
Ph.llies. Pittsburgh has declared m
eligible L. T Nelson, Thomas Nj. Cuig-
ley and George Sissler. all recruits
while ST. Louis of the National League,
has put the ban on c. NJ. Enright, Earl
Hennis, Roy Golden and V. P.ddington.
OF the four Golden was the best known.
He was a prom sing pitcher
Stars Also Get It.
Pat Dougherty. Fielder Jones, Bill
LANCE and Martin ,Walsh are all In
elisibles of the Chicago White Sox. Jones
is now president of the Northwestern
League, so IS apparently ineligible only as
ball player. Walsh is a brother OF the
redoubtable Ed.
The ST. Louis Browns contribute Z. n.
Brown a pitcher. while Boston. Cleveland
Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington
have none at all
A lot of ineligibles of the past have
been lost from the list. Apparently 1t
was decided that there was no chance
for their ever returning, and less chance
of their making good If they did.
Fred Glade, the former Yankee pitcher
and Doc Hillebrand. the one-time
Princeton star. used to appear on the
New York list but> they are there no
longer.
Paddy Grnier. the Huntingdon boy.
who will get a try-out with the Yankees
this spring is one of the Youngest lads
in the big league, if not the baby of the
bunch.
Milton Stock, a Giant infield recruit.
held the record until Grinier, who played
ball last season under the name OF Green,