Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-22

one comes to know the various riders.
McDougall is wonderful boy, isn't
he?" the Brooklyn scout querred.
Kramer and Mcnamara also showed
great speed. | wouldn't be a bit sur
prised,' Sutton concluded, eff cycling
would be a big thing over in Brook
Ign. If Mr.. Ebbets, my boss, goes into
it and puts a track in his big stadium,
the people over there are sure to sup
port it."
@
The linking of baseball and cycling
interest, as contemplated, will make
the bike game bigger than ever. Mr..
Ebbets likes the idea very well and
he told me that his only fear was
that he wouldn't be able to build
portable track in his ball park that
could be put up and taken down at
a cost that would make the venture
a paying one. Otherwise he thought
the idea was a great one and he felt
as If the patronage would be very
large. More enthusiastic, however,
than Mr.. Ebbets, are the McKeever
brothers, Ed and Steve, who are
partners in baseball with Mr.. Eb-
bets. Ed McKeever has become a
regular bike fan and he is keen for
the sport and he is particularly
anxious to build a track in the
Brooklyn grounds. AS a result of
their liking for cycling, it is very
probably that Messrs. Ebbets and
the McKeevers will build a bike
track somewhere in Brooklyn and
that Messrs. Million and Uppercu
will be interested in the enterprise
with the Brooklyn men.
G
Scout Sutton thinks well of Raleigh
Aitchison's prospects of making good
with Brooklyn. He said today that
Aitchison had the ability and he felt
that he was not lacking a single es-
sential required of a big league
twirler.
'The boy is all right, and 1 know
it." said Sutton. He'll make good
OF course. 1 am anxious for him to
deliver the goods because it was me
who discovered him. I'll tell you a
little story of how i got Lefty, as
Raleigh is known in the South. He
was with Frank Isbell, the old Chi
cago first baseman, who was manag-
ing Sioux City at the time. l was
Isbell told me he had two pitchers
he would sell me for $1,000. He didn't
mention any names. / heard, though,
that Aitchison was his best pitcher
and l put in a draft for him for the
Brooklyn Club and we got him..
When l saw Isbell later he said to
me;
"'Say, Larry. you put one over
on me, didn't your
well, maybe 1 did," l said. but
if 1 didn't draft Aitchison you would
have sold me two of your poorest
pitchers. l suppose.
That's what Isbell would have
done, sure as the sum-" Sutton said.
but I got Aitchison, his best pitcher,
!
just the same"
| A couple of years have made a big
change in Aitchison. He has de-
veloped in many ways. His pitching
this season for Newark has been sem
sational. He looks to be good enough
for the big Show" but some seem
to think he will fail. When Brooklyn
first drafted him, he was little
new and he was sent to Nashville
Waivers were asked on him. and
Pittsburgh expressed a desire to give
him a trial at short price. The
deal didn't go through. He was later
offered to Chicago, but Charley Muir.
ply turned him down. Now, though
Murphy is hot after Aitchison. H,
would give Charley Ebbets $4,000 fol
the pitcher, but he couldn't have hin
now even for that handsome sum
If Aitchison doesn't get along il
Brooklyn, he will likely come back tt
Newark-that is if none of the othel
clubs puts a stop order on him.
CO
The Cubs VS.. Giants at the Poll
Grounds hasn't got the same oil
sting it used to have. The fans turi
out in large numbers. but the en-