The Detroit times., 1913-03-12
Discouraged by Older Men at st.
Louis, Harry Shines
With Tigers
APPRECIATES TREATMENT
FROM THE TIGER BOSSES
Must Make Good This Season to
Finish Course in
Dentistry
BY RALPH l.. YONKER.

GULFPORT. Miss. March Zone
of the men who is bound to give
Manager Hugh jennings knotty
problem to settle when the pruning
time comes is Harry Stanley. OF ST.
Louis, Mo. who Is displaying an abil.
lily TO play the game of baseball that
has astounded those VINO remember
that ST Louis asked waivers on this
fellow and were tickled 10 death 10
get rid OF him 10 Detroit for the
waiver price OF $500, which 10 little
enough fora man who can really play
the major league game.
Stanley, the likeness OF Gamer in
Looks and Cobb In actions. impressed
Manager Jennings from the moment
he started with the Tigers, He has
continued to impress the Tiger boss
and nov the chief thing 10 determine
is Can he hit real pitching?"
Stanley has been doing well
enough with the college stuff and the
straight ball professional grind that
has been dished up to him, but he
may do Hank Perry and fail to
show ability 10 untangle the snarls
that come with real big league huri-
ing.
Stanley was kicked out Of the st.
Louis club by the older members OF
the team who had no use for him. He
was picked off a college team in st.
Louis, sent TO Burlington and recalled
to ST. Louis. But all the time this
taint OF being rank amateur col
lege player and a busher withal
hlighted him in the eyes OF the
Brown vets.
4 Stanley is not one OF these dis
agreeably aggressive men who force
. themselves forward. On the field he
.has plenty OF pep and chatter and
/ can kick like u. 8. mule on de-
cision II ne wants to. but of the field
he Is as quiet and modest as a Quak-
er maiden. So Stanley didn't spit
steam In the faces of the Browns and
demand that they disgorge valuable
information to him OH how to play
his position in the infield. shortstop,
about which he admitted he knew but
little. So he was ignored by those
men who could have taught him the
game. The result was that he grew
DISCOURAGED nd-satL up nights hoping
for his release.
"The best Christmas present | ever
received was on Dec. 20, 1912, when
/ learned that had been released
over the waiver route to the Detroit
Tigers" says Stanley. Il wanted 10
get away from st. Louis and would
have been happy TO have gone BACK
TO the minors. but to go TO Detroit
was better than had even hoped for
'T have found the Detroit men
exactly the opposite OF the st. Louis
,layers as far as showing me things
Every man on the team that ] nave
asked anything has been glad to show
me what | wanted.
"The coaches have been especially
good In this. For instance. ICE Sug-
len has told me the proper way TO
back up the sack on throw from the
,utfield Until Sngden showed me
how, I had been doing that wrong :.
Manager Jennings has corrected
my stride in batting ] wasn't MT.
ting right. but didn't know 1t until
he told me wherein ] was wrong.
mot only does the actual knowi-
edge that they give you heip. out
the spirit they promote means a
whole lot. 1t Is entirely different TO
realize that everybody Is with you
and wants to see you make good than
to think that everybody Is knocking
YOU In order to make you rail-
Shanley has been shifted from
shortstop. where he played with Bur
lington, to second base, for three
reasons. The presence of DOME Bush
At short and the absence of Bill LOU
ten until lately at second are two
Of them. Shanley's ability and In
ciination to play the right side OF the
diamond Is the other.
Harry has always played first base
until he went to Burlington. where a
,Mortstop was needed more than a
frat or second baseman. He doesn't
ike to play short as well as he does
second and he doesn't like to play