Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-20
PHILLIPS ALWAYS POSSESSED
 STRONG ouTFIELD
Ever Since They Entered National League They Had Strong Trio Magee the last of Great Fielders.

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 From the time it entered team in ! the National league in 1883, PhilGJel- | phia. always could boast of possessing s | a ario of strong outfielders. Beginning i with Bill Purcell and down to Skcr-. i wood R. Magee the left side of the !! outfleld was each season guarded !oy l 8 star of some briIliancy. Looking l down the list, such names as Jirl l Manning, George Wood Billy faE.il. 1 George Browne, Jack Barry are on [ countered, all splendid players anIi hard and timely hitters. In running passes they were daring and speedy, | and in fielding their positions they had few superiors
 Magee, the last of the greaJ Phila- delphia left f1elders, was born in Clar endon. Pa. on August s, 1884. TIcI lolned the Philles in 1904, playing his first game at Philadelphia on June 39 The regular outfeld was then made up | Up of Jack Barry in left, Roy Tboln;.S in center and John Titus in right. The last named met with an injury and
 Manager Hugh Duffy, fresh from Mil Waukee, was compelled to hunt a substitute. His attention was called to M2gee, who was doing fine work for the Lfndens, an independent team a+ Carlisle, Pa Duffy at once secured him and placed him in left field, sen] ing Barry to take Titus place in right
 Magee was not a giittering success in
 his initial game, as the following criticism of his play the next morning;
 shows:
 Sherwood nTagee of Carlisle, was
 tried in left field and misjudged tn-o
 ies, which cost runs.'
 However the way he waIloped the
 ball atoned for his omissions in the
 field. It is true. he got only one hit
 off lack Cronin, but he never failed to|
 hit the bail hard every time he went
 to bat. Cronin pitched for Brooklyn.
 which team won the game s to 6. Eiu
 Duggleby and Frank Sparks pitched
 for the Phillies, who then were ia last
 place and remained i'll that position
 until the end of the season.
 Magee improved with each subse-
 quent game, and when Titus returned
 to the outtield. Barry was release1 to|
 the Chicago team, with Whic.: he be-
 came a reliable aU-around s,:b. Ma gee was kept in left field and given a
 regular berth.
 In the race of 1905 the PhillieB wound
 up in fourth place, the strong outdeld
 having much to do with the improved
 standing. Magee, Thomas and Titus
 worked side by side for fou" yea Is.
 Then came the first break. IL o,.carred
 in 1908, under the management of Billy
 Murray, the second bascn1aG with the
 PhillieS. In June of that year Thomas
 was given his passport to Pittsburgh, and Wilfred Osborne was placed in center field Just about year from the date he became regular the Phil
 adelphia club traded Louis Ritchie.
 Buster Brown and Dave Shean to the Boston club for Johnny Bates and Charley Starr. Bates immediat teIy took possession of center field and Cis- borne was released.
 For two seasons MaGee.. Bates and Titus held together, and then the third break in the outfield occurred. In ! 1911 the Philadelphia club engaged in a trade that held the attention Of the country. l. gave the Cincinnati club Johnny Bates, George AcQuillan, Ed die Grant and Lew Moren for George
 Paskert, Hans Lobert. Jack Rowan Bates in center field for the PaiIliez and is slated to continue in that Do i sition the coming season.
 This strong outfeld went it's merry way until the middle of the season of 1912, when the fourth break occurred. This time it was Titus who was loos- ened. being pried from right field. 8 position he had held most acceptaoly ] since 1908. in which year the Phillies got him from the Concord club of the New England league. Titus was traded to the Boston club on June 2 for Dr. Roy Miller who took his stand in right field three days later.
 The Philadelphia club then had a substitute on it's list who had made quite 2 record with the MinneaDolis team of the American association in 1909, 1910 and 1911. His nuane was Clifford CGayvy) Cravatil, who four years previously had broken into three major league teams without being able 10 make good.
 The Phillies used him as a substi- 1 tute during half the season of 1912. 1 When Titus was traded to Boston Cravath was evidently not considered strong enough to hold his own as a regular. and so Roy Miller got Johnny ES1-PG' 4a season of 1912 closed, Cravath's merit was discovered and admitted, and he became the regular outflelder, a, posi- tiou he still occupies.
 Miller was the substitute in 1918 and was later joined by Josh Devore. ] whom the Phillies purchased from the Cincinnati club. Early last year Mil i Ter was released to the Montreal club of the International league but before the season opened was transferred to Cincinnati. In July of last year Devore was traded to Boston for Johnny Mar tin, a shortstop. Josh figured in one of the famous worlds series games last fall, being called upon to hit in a pinch for one of the pitchers After the release of Devore. BeaIs Becker be- came the outfeld substitute for the Philiies
 The fifth and last break in the Phil adekphia oUtheid in II years. occurred a month ago, when Nfagee was traded ct the Boston club. There is now some curiosity a to whether the PhiIadeI-
 phia team will maintain it's reputa- ton as to strength in the outfeld