Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
SUPERbAS ARE KIDS
Average Age Of Brooklyn
Players Is About 26 Years.
COOMBS SENIOR MAN
1nfielder Joe Schultz, a Spring SEN
sation, Is the Baby Mem
Der of Team.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.
Brooklyn's Superbas. who for time
played real classy ball this year and
who threatened to do the unexpected
and win the National League pennant,
are a young crowd. only four men hav-
ing reached the thirty-year mark. The
average age of the players on the Rob-
inson managed and Ebbets-McKeever
owned team is about twenty-six years.
John Wesley Coombs, one of base balls
most notable come-backs. Is the senior
player in the ranks of the Robins and
is due November IS, next, to celebrate
his thirty-second birthday. G. Napoleon
Rucker will be thirty-one September
80. Capt. Jacob c. Daubert and Jack
of-all-trades John e. Hummel passed
their thirtieth milestones this year and
Ivan M. Olson, another understudy, Will
be thirty before the big foot ball games
are played next fall.
The baby member Of the Robinson
squad is Inflelder Joe Schultz. who was
a spring sensation and whose work the
handicapped by lame arm. He was
twenty-five last month. Edward Sam
uel Appleton, by process OF figuring.
can be rated as the youngest of all the
nODluS, SlHCS Hc OIly has VII lhody
every four years. He was born Feb
urary 20. 1892. and has had Just five
birthdays.
Charles Hercules Ebbets. president Of
the Brooklyn Club. now is f1fty-six
seven. Manager wilbert Robinson
celebrated his flfty-first birthday in
June.
Both the Brooklyn catchers-Lew
McCarty'and Otto Miller-are twenty,
be twenty-seven before the year is out
OF the pitchers, Jack Coombs will be
thirty-two in November and Nap Rucker
thirty-one in September. "Wheezer"
year; Jeff" Pfeffer. on his way to
his twenty-seventh; Phil Douglas, on
his way to his twenty-sixth; Sherrod
Smith. on his way to his twenty-fifth.
and Ed Appleton, on his way to his
OF the infielders Hummel and Dau-
bert now are thirty and O1son's next
birthday will put him in their class.
George Cutshaw was twenty-eight
about ten days ago and this week Gus
Ollie OMara was twenty three in
March and Joe Schultz twenty-five last
month.
The average age of the outfielders is
twenty-six, Wheat being twenty-seven,
Myers twenty-six and Stengel twenty
five. Not single man in the Robin
son squad was born on that alleged
luckless date-the thirteenth-but one
man reached this sphere on a skiddoo
day. Wheat's birthday being May %.
Coombs was born in 1883, Rucker in
1884. Hummel, Daubert and Olson in
1885, Dell and Cutshaw in 1887. Wheat
and McCarty in 1883, Pfeffer, Myers
Miller and Getz in 1889, Douglas and
Stengel in 1890. Smith in 1891, Apple
ton and OMara in 1892 and Schultz in
1893 Mono NJ the M
in January. two having their birthdays
in February, two in March, two in
April. two in May. three in June, three
in July, one in August, one in Sep
TENDER. one in October and two in No
vember.
Ebbets and McKeever aren't paying
salaries this year to single native
son. neither are they distributing sti-
ponds to any athletes who were born
on foreign soil. Willie Zimmerman,
light Of day in Kengen. Germany, and
Leon Galore. at present in Montreal,
Is believed to have been born some
where within the confines of the EN-
pire state.
A majority of the Superbas are west
erners. the south having almost as
many representatives on the Ebbets-
McKeever roster as the east The
Pennsylvanians among the Robins are
Schultz and Getz. born in Pittsburgh;
L.
born in Llewellyn, and mccarthy, born
In Milton. The show me state Of Mis-
souri, shows up with four athletes
Olson and Stengel, born in Kansas
city; Wheat, born in Kingston, and
O'Mara, born in ST. Louis
Georgia contributes three men-all
the Brooklyn club. They
are Southpaws Rucker and Smith. born,
respectively. in Alpharetta and Mans
field, and Highlander Douglas. born in
Cedartown. The Illini among the Rob
ms are Pfeffer. born lin Seymour, and
Cutshaw, born in Wilmington. Hi Ny
outielder in the National League. is a
native Of East Liverpool. Ohio; Otto
Miller was born in Hendon. Neb; Jack
Coombs, in Legrande, Iowa; ''Wheezer"
Dell in Tuscarora. New, and Edward
Half Of the superbas have had the Or
der OF the Tin Can pinned on them by
major league clubs. Getz and Schultz
were were turned adrift by the Braves. while
san natlo, dise s, Daubert and Oh
burgh bade farewell to Smith, walking
papers were handed Pfeffer by the ST. |
Louis Browns, Dell didn't suit Roger
when he was managing the |
Cards. Cincinnati sold Douglas for the
waiver price and Coombs received his
unconditional release from Connie
Mack.
This is the birthday data on the SUI
perbas:
PRESIDENT.
Charles n. Ebbets will be 81 October O. He
was born In New York.
MANAGER
wfibert Robinson was 81 June %. He was |
born in Hudson. Mass. |
cATCHERs.
Lew McCarty will be 81 November II. He was |
born In Milton, Penna.
otto Lowell Miller was 20 June l. He was
born IN Hendon, Neb.
PITCHERS
John Wesley COMBS will be So November Is |
BE was born in Leg1nde, Iowa.
G.. Napoleon Rucker will be 81 September 30 /
He was born in Alpharetta, Ga.
W. G. Dell was % June H. He was born |
Ia Tuscarora, New.
Edward Joseph Prefer was 20 March 4. He
was born in Seymour, III.
Philip BROOKS Douglas was 26 June II. He