Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13
WITH Winning MINES
PennantS Are Not Unknown to
the Boston Braves Players.
MAJORITY ARE SEASONED
Fourteen of Stallings' Crew Have
Been With Championship
Organizations.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BOSTON, September 12.-lt will be no
new experience for the majority of the
Braves IL they are members of a flag
winning combination this fall, fourteen
of them previously having been identified
with pennant winners. Capt. John Evers
and Private Herb Moran are the athletes
of the Stallings clan who most often
have played on championship teams. The
Trojan played under Chance when the
Cubs captured National League banners
in 1906. 1907, 1908 and 1919, while the
former Red pastimed in cities that won
-onfalons in the interstate, southern and
eastern leagues.
Fred Mitchell, whose right name, they
say, is Yapp, has played with three
champion teams, having been one of Con-
ME Mack's pitchers the first year the
tall tactician's club finished in front in
the American League That was 1902.
Five years later Mitchell caught for the
Toronto Eastern League champions and
three years ago he was with Rochester
when 1t won the pennant-
The men who have played with two
teams that finished in front are: Josh
Devore. Dick Crutcher. Otto Hess. Dick
Rudolph, Bert Whaling and Larry Gill
bert, Josh was with the Giants in 1911
and 1912. Hess with New Orleans in 1910
and 1911, Rudolph with Toronto in 1907
and 1912, and Whaling with Seattle in
1860 and 1912. Crutcher helped pitch the
Frankfort KY, club to the Blue Grass
League pennant in 1908. and a year later
he aided Enid. Okla, in annexing the
Western Association championship. Lar
nv Gilbert became connected with flag
winner the first year he played PROBES
sionally. That was in 1910. He started
with San Antonio. which club transferred
him to the Victoria club of the southwest
Texas League Victoria led at the finish
Last year Gilbert was with the Miiwau-
kee Club, which captured chief honors
in the American Association.
With Champions Once.
Men who have put in one year with
championship outfits are Harry Gowdy,
Leslie Mann, Bill James. Oscar Dugey
and Charley Schmidt. Mann and James,
together with Whaling. assisted Seattle in
winning the flag in Fielder Jones North
western League in 1912; Gowdy was with
the Dallas (Texas) League champions in
1910, Dugey with the New Orleans South
ern Association pennant winners the
same year, and Schmidt was one of Jack
Dunn's Orioles when they finished in
front in the Eastern League in 1908.
Ensign Cottrell was with the White
Elephants in 1913, but not when they
won the pennant. He pitched one full
game for Connie Mack, won it practical
" himself by TRIPPING with the bases full
and the next week was with Baltimore.
The boss Of the Braves-George Tweedy
StaIlings-has been with more flag-win-
of hi Mo he f,.et
championship team with which The
Miracle Man was identified was Stock
ton OF the California State League
in 1883 The next year Stallings was
with the Oakland Cal; fiag-wtnners; In
1891 and 1892 with San Jose. Cal, another
championship team; in 1895 with Nash
VILE Tenn, still another winner, and in
1904 and 1906 with Buffalo, which also
COPIED.
The Braves championship experience is
given below:
Braves Championship Experience.
PLAYED WITH FOUR WINNERS.
Erers-Chicago. National League. 1906, 1907
1908 aud 1010.
Moran-Du Bots, Interstate League, 1907: At.
lanta. Southern Association 1903 and Roches
ter. Eastern League. 1910 and 1911
PLAYED WITH THREE WINNERS
Mitchell-Philadelphia, American League. 1902
Toronto. Eastern League, 1907, and Rochester
Eastern League, 1911.
PLAYED WITH TWO WINNERS.
Devore-New York. National League, 1911
and 1912.
Crutcher-Frankfort. Blue Grass League, 1905
and Enid. Western Association. 1909
Hese-New Orleans, Southern Association. 191t
and 1911.
Hudolph-Toronto. Eastern League, 1907, ant
Toronto. International League, 1912
Whalfng-Seattle. Northwestern League, 1906
and 1912
GilbeFt-victoria, Southwest Texas League
1910, and Milwaukee, American Association
1915.
PLAYED WITH ONE WINNER.
Schrnidt-Baltimore, Eastern League. 1908.
Gowdy-Dallas, Texas League, 1910.
Dugey-New Orleans. Southern Association
laiN
Nann-Seattis, Northwestern League, 1912.
rnnA1-Sentffe EccthHestern Ie6fue 1912,