The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-23
oBERT DAVIS FR1sBEE-''Pop'' Ttisbee for

,S}Is ,S} particular branch of the sporting service
4 VA a long time ago baseball recreation. Then it
raw AZ int into commercial experiment, broadened into
having proposition and is now, in point of money In
RPssed interests staked and popular Following the
meatest outdoor amusement enterprise in the world.
When baseball began to pay the managers set about
The gamo itself developed along scientific lines and
the big league next, with its everincreasng de-
4 mend FOR new blood.
Al the present writing sixteen major league clubs
with tentaees reaching into every minor league in the
country feeling about for the youngster who
pIay ball well enough to pick up tho veteran s glove
M a. he drops it.
|" The big league is unfeeling sort Of an octopus
The player who struggles to the top holds his job just
80 long he play his position little bit better
| than any other man whom the management can find
the s Is II S on the lookout
| into play. His job is to find the boys who to be
1 The stars Of tomorrow.
sometimes the scout is snPerannuated ball player;
| sometimes he is man who never had a baseball In
bis hands. He must have the ability to pick sterling
Il Veness and certain amount Of initiative. we'll
e W noys Se TGI the a
Otherwise be spent IN trying out unsatisfactory
Pop Frisbee was a good scout Between his teens
\ and his thirties he had been ball player and
II team captain famous in the minors. His inability
81 BIZ higb.class pitching had condemned him to spend
active days Just outside an ma|Gr league & Organizations
i had knack for developing raw material in short
When Frsbee began TO take on weight and could no
q longer spear' the bad throws at first, he began to
81 look about him for permanent position of some sort,
from the bench as
scout Cahl had played second base under FRS
\ bee and be had respect for Pops Judgment of
u Frisbee made good He took real pride in his work;
Il pride his ability 90 into the waste places and
come back with the goods. He knew more about tho
little leagues of the bush country than any three scouts
q anxiety impress upon Cahl the necessity for
a ing an unknown. modest commendation from Pop
:. KsEaohan. Henry McDonougb, Of the Blues Or Davy
~ Martin, of the Benedicts.
hunted ball players with brass band torchlight
procession, and he kept his mouth shut Once during
n bis first year he had opened his heart TO friend and
II it had him wonderful rigbtha phenomenon
whom he had discovered pitching in timber league
Own counsel covered lis trail vhere he could and
81 when on the scent was as secretiye as detective
q Shero TTsbee Gdug up his live ones
81 II was Pop Frsbeo who found ''Gertie'' Judsop,
IN with his modest report, Butch Galloway and
Of whom might been 0fh in The PHlss
II ny Yet but for old Frisbec's prying eye
poeEst of nuggets ever felt more pleasure than
III did this plump faced midde,aged man at the sight
III an unknown playing big league baseball on an un
q Pop TEisbec has another job now. He is in
work he puts nc enthusiasm and out of it he gets
pleasure His salary check smaller too, and it may
w be that lie notices the increased cost of living.
Fl His judgment of ball player is every bit as keen
s " was ten years ago and h he still retains the quail
II
Then, why he inspector9 Because he laughed
"a out Of baseball 'guyed out Of the business TO which
n tim OF practical joke. which certainly never
aimed at Robert Davis Frisbee;; he was caught in a
81 mare which not spread for his cautious feet Look
II ing back the circumstances. Pop may lay .fnl
M Of the blame upon his secretive methods; little
nankness, few judicious questions. might have saved
" ibe day-and ruined this story.
BE patient, for the story begnsbegins with johnny
aeegan sitting In front of adobe house In the ham
M ~ OF San Miguel county Of Rio Arriba, state OF New
In most of the little towns of New Mexico, far away
m the main lines Of the railroad there are men from
s1s[ Of the Mississippi. Some of them live in that
nh dry atmosphere because they find the fag end OF
81 e sweet to them There are others who, they say;
M have taken it in time. These expect to get well
s as old the garden of Eden and il was invented
shen Adam looked back his shoulder and caught
e nash Of the sword at the boundaries Gods coun-
Wy Is never the land in which lives, but the land
e.s wsch one cannot return Thus to Johnny Meegan
"a meant Boston; to Fred Parks it meant shnmokin:
ma ag and to Jefferson Davis johnson, Good country
The Chicago sporting writers gave Johnny Meegan
% wa BANQUET and oyng uP to. to take Th ht him
sioke in their throas for they did not expect to
n S s@ again Sentence had been proneuneed upon him
T. a specialist OF international reputation after the
- "sf ssTss baseball reporter had cougbed all winter
n assTieo Arizona'
sSs.s LET it be said that 9pt while there was
So the BOYS gave him loving cup and drank from
his very good health and his speedy return John
opened his check book wi wide. and md We begin to untange
IA ,@s story with Johnny Meegan planted in un-
p hamlet of queer, dry country with seven white
nr @ ior companionsfour of them were worthless from
G Standpoint you choose to takeand the balance OF
"a I mi population Mexieans and Apaches from the Jaea-
3 dan reservation: The Apaches were nice. quiet In
sIs an not at al! like the sainted Geronimo. They
"a y.q Jq 90 almost anything for drink of whisky.
vh mad the local specialist at Albuquerque,
had mao NAG gwen him hope and good advice Opep ar
ashen raw geen recommended and Johnny had made long,
dM M;oIIng Trip with mustang and pack horse San
IsseI mad been at the end OF that journey That was
= 'spHs;mse p;Ie of Billy Kilbourne
IA thar v was existing in San Miguel With more comfort
iM onr ne mad been able to find elsewhere Billy WIS
~ mend ty6ve, but he had lived his life in tire.
Il thou tb.a . hurry, and crowded many things into
VI ooL II had been New Mexico heaven and Billy