New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09
WHERE ARE STARS
OF YESTERYEAR?
Once Famous Ball Players
Are Widely Scattered
in Bushes"
VETERAN PITCHERS
DRAW RELEASES
Jack Powell and Cy Morgan
Are Cast Adrift on the Open
Market by Managers.

Are Cast Adrift on the Opeh
Market by Managers.
In all the discussions Of big base
ball salaries very little attention Is
paid TO the short life OF the star play
er and the wanderings which he must
endure once he has passed from the
big leagues. Conditions are somewhat
more equitable now since the practical
abolition by court decision OF the ten
day clause, which enabled manager
to cast a man adrift at any time.
Yet not infrequently the star Of to-
day is the bush Lacquer Of tomorrow:
Perhaps the most famous instance OF
this sort was the case Of Robe, utility
PLAYER with the Chicago White Sox
By accident il was necessary TO draft
him for the worlds series against the
Cubs. and IL was his terrific hitting
which brought the championship 20
Chicago.
After the end OF the series the papers
announced that Comiskey had declared
Robe would always have q home with
the White Sox in consideration OF MS
great work in the series. Possibly TINS
was mere newspaper talk, but at any
rate the next year Robe was sent to
club in the Southern League, and not
even being good enough for that or
ganization was shipped far out to some
remote spot deep in the sticks.
Powell a Free Agent.
Jack Powell, once one Of the best
right handed pitchers in the game
seemed to be a man who defed old
age. Although not noted for strict
training methods he hung on for years
after his end had been predicted he
was one of the bulwarks of the Yankee
team in its early days and after being
sold to the St. Louis Browns suddenly
acquired a new lease of life and
pitched some excellent ball before he
drifted out of fast company. But he
could not 90 on forever and the last
word comes from the Venice team on
the Pacific Coast that Powell has re-
ceived his reletse and can go where
he pleases.
Another pitcher who was famed for
a time has apparently come to the emo
of the road much more rapidly than
Powell. Mick Maddox, once Pirate
who began this season as manager oil
the Wichita team, has been released.
Although an extremely successtul
pitcher in the National League, the
best he could do for Wichita was 10
win three games and lose twelve. he
was succeeded by another National
Lacquer, Peaches Graham, who made
great reputation with the Boston Ma
tionals as a catcher, but fell away to
nothing when sent to the Cubs.
Ed Kiliian, the iron-armed lefthand-
or, who held sway so long with he.
troit, is trying to make come back
with the Ottawa team in Canada. he
has had nothing but semi-professional
work this year.
Titus Can Still Hit 1t.
The American Association, which the
players know as "the workhouse
I league" because it's season is so long,
fairly bristles with men, once famous
] in the big leagues, and some of them
are playing such good baseball that II
/ seems certain they were cast adrift too
soon. Old John Titus, long a slugging
star for the Phillies, who played his
last big league engagement with the
Braves, is now in the Kansas City out
field and clouting away at furious
pace. The fact that he was wellnigh
killed by a pitched bali early in the
season does not seem to have affected
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! est.
Cy Morgan, the minstrel man, once
crack pitcher of the Athletics, was
team mate of Titus, but has drawn his
release. Other onetime big leaguers OF
the club are Rath, Mattick, Brief, Dow
ney and Baskette.
st. Paul has Harry Niles, the speedy
outfelder, who played with the Browns
and the Yankees and the Red Sox be-
/ fore il came time for him to 60. Per
haps his best known feat was catching
ball for the second out in the ninth
/ inning Of a game and then running all
the way to the clubhouse under the i'm
preston that it was the final play OF
the game.
The Cleveland American Association
team, or the Bearcats. as they like to
/ be called, has an inheld made up en-
tirely of ex-Yankees. Lelivelt is on
first, Earl Gardner at second, Knight
at shortstop and Stump at third
Jimmy Sheckard, well known to New
York fans for his depredations when
! Cub, is manager of the team.
The manager Of the Minneapolis team
| is said to have a prejudice against
ball players under forty. Certainly he
\ has veterans enough. Claude Rossman,
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ting averages ever made in a worlds
series, is in the outfeld.
Tannehill Now "Busher."
BOSNIAN was with the Tigers when
4 he made his brilliant record for the
series. Lee Tsnnehill, considered one Of
the bes tshor.stops or third basemen
/ tie game ever saw, is playing at the
latter position. Lee was always great
fielder, but his weak hitting carried
him out Of the big leagues as soon AZ
he began to slow up at all.
Daredevil Dave Altizer is another
player tried and true who helps out
with the chores about the infeld. A.
first base is Hunter, who once promised
TO be phenom with the Pirates. Jimmy
Williams, the best second baseman the
Yankees ever had, Is still hitting the
ball hard, as a Minneapolis man. Burns,
the big left handler of the White Sox
and the Senators, bears part OF the
pitching burden.
The international League once had
only a few veterans, but now IL num-
bers many former big leaguers. Freddy
Parent, who played for the Red Sox IN
the first worlds series and easily out
shone Hans Wagner, is with Baltimore.
So is Neal Ball, an ex-Ysnkee, who
made a triple play unassisted while
with Cleve and. Tim Jordan, who
reigned for very brief time as the
hest sIu00er in the National League. tx