Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-07
WHEN IS MAN TOO
OLD FOR MAJORS?
Many Players Have Failed at
First, Only to Stick
Later On.
THIRD SLIP USUALLY FATAL
(From q Stan Correspondent of the New
ark Evening starr

(From stan Correspondent OF the New
ark Evening starr
COLUMBUS. Ga, March When
does a man become too old to get a.
trial with the big leagues? Some ex-
perts see the time limit at twenty
four years and that man who can't
hold his own in fast company at that
stage of life has no chance of be-
coming big Lacquer,
Exceptions TO the Rule.
But there are other ways of look
ing at it. and there are exceptions to
every rule In debating the subject
the counter-question would be, How
often does man make good on his
first trail in fast company? The
major league clubs are full of men
who have had chances. sometimes two
and three times before they stuck in
| fast company. Any class "A player
who is at all fast is entitled to two
chances before it should be said of
him that he lacks big league class.
| Daubert's Case.
/ Had this rigid test of being tried
once and found wanting to be canned
from fast company forever been APP
piled, Brooklyn would have no Jake
Daubert. Daubert had a trial with
! Cleveland was canned. Elmer Brown,
another superba recruit of exceptional
promise, was tried out with st. Louis
Browns and shipped back. The same
might be said of Raleigh Aitchison.
| Bill Collins. Eddie Collins, Charley
| Wagner. of the Boston Americans:
Amos Strunk, of the Philadelphia
Athletics; Oscar Stannage, turned
down by Cincinnati and later grabbed
4 by Detroit Then there is Jimmy
Archer, star receiver for the Chicago
Cubs, who was canned by Hughey
Jennings There is Charley Smith
| the Highlander who was not good
enough for Boston, but after being
sent back to Newark was grabbed by
| the Chicago Cubs, and has stuck three
seasons.
| Hub Perdue. of the Boston Ma
| tionals, is another who was canned
by Brooklyn and he is now con-
sistent pitcher, especially in the
spring, for the Beaneaters. Jimmy
Lavender is another.
How about Herbie Morgan. rated
not good enough by Boston, but .
success with the Superbas and now q
member of the Cincinnati Reds?
Grifflth's Comebacks.
How about Hoblitzel, of Cincinnati
Jackson, the smuggling Cleveland out.
fielder, who was let out by Connie
Mack? Hal Panvrin, sent down tc
the Shelters by the Red Sox, of Bos-
( ton? Eddie Foster, Dan Moeller and
/ Chick Gandil. who made the Senators
pennant contenders when Griffith OBJ
tanned this trio? All three had beer
tried, and the handwriting on the
club house wall read, you have beer
tried and found wanting. Your days
| are numbered" They stuck to the
| game, however. played on their tip.
toes, and when another chance came
their way they grabbed it and were
pulled in by the big league net.
| on the Newark team there are ?
number of players who have SUM
! into the minors for the first time
after a try-out in fast company
Being canned is n good deal like
drowning. The first time down there
| is always an excellent chance of re.
turning. Likewise on the second slip
but the third is generally fatal. Bert
Tooley, of the champion Tigers, is
just now in mis- twenty-eighth year
and the game he is showing down
here makes him look like tho most re.
markable youngster who ever trod on
spikes between third and home.
TooIcy Had Hnrd Luck.
Bert was unfortunate in landing
with a team like Brooklyn, low in the
race when he had his big league
!
! Rochester win n pennant. Many OF
the Tigers believe that if Tooley had
not been injured last spring. Gagnier
would never have had a chance to
play shortstop for the Tigers. Tooley
is in for the most brilliant season OF
his career. and the chances are that
he will get his second chance to make
good next fall il he can shake off his
jlnx.
The same goes for Gus Getz, who
was drafted by two big league clubs
last fall, but was unlucky; Eddie
Zimmerman. for whom things broke
badly in the big show; Jack Dalton
VIII played big league ball last sum
mer; Hi Myers, faster than ever this
year, and full of pep, and a few other
men wearing Newark uniforms.
Holiness Novel ideas.
! Ducky Holmes, formerly of Roches-
/ ter and Buffalo, is an old head at
baseball and has his own ideas.
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