The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-09
Joe Kelley, A To-day,
 Once a Star Outfielder

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 When Col. Ruppert and Capt Illus ton bought the New Y ork Yankees last
 Winter with the benevolent intention
 of putting the metropolis on the Amer lean League map, they devoted com si derabIe thought to the problem of landing good manager, but their greatest concern was to hire a capable scout. After looking over the field they selected two Internationa1sI I,eapI1e
 pilots for these important jobs. Wild
 Bills' Donovan, who led the Provi-
 dence club to victory in 1914 got the managerial berth. and Joe. Kelley. I-5vhose Toronto club had annexed the
 Barrow circuit bunting in 1912, was employed to go forth into the high ways and by-ways in search of the
 material for a real baseball club Joe was given three assistants inciud- ing Duke Farrell. once a famous | big league catcher, and became the chief of what was perhaps the best scouting force in big league history.
 It is yet too1 1earlySto judge of the re- suits of the scouting of Kelley and his assistants, but the Tanks have a. wealth of promising new material. and if they develop into a real ball club
 next year the credit will largely be- long to Orio1e Joe.
 Kelley was born forty-four years ago to-day, and gained his diamond fame
 as an outfieIder with the old pennant-
 winning Orioles, in the days when Ned
 FIanlon's club Kept Baltimore in the National League Hmelight. The left
 garden was Joefs territory, and he was
 a star in a club composed of stars,
 among them being CIarkson. McMa-
 hon, Hoffer, Gleason and Esper, twir1ers; Wi1bert Robinson behind the
 bat; Dan Brouthers and Jack Doyle
 at first base; Reitz at second John McGraw at third and Hughfe Jen-
 nfngs at short with Kelley, Brodie land Wee Willie Keeler in the outer garden Kelley was with the Orioles from 1892. when Baltimore was ad- rnftted to the National League, until the close of the 1898 season When
 the Baltimore club was transferred to Brooklyn in, 1899, Kelley was
 among the players Han1On took with him, and helped the Superbas to win the pennants- in 1899 and 1900. Tn the latter year Joe toook a turn at
 first base, and got away with it in
 good shape. Tn succeeding years Kelley became the regular first sack CT, and played a few games at third. In 1902 Joe listened to Ban Johnson's $
 sirens and jumped to the American League. landing with Baltimore, where
 he rejoined his old teammates. Will
 bert Robinson and John McGraw. He soon jumped back to the older circuit and finished his big league career with the Cincinnati Reds. Joe bat ted over the .300 marx Tor eleven years in succession. a feat accomplish ed by very few players in big league history.
 Joese Successor as pilot of the Maple Leafs, Derby Bi11'' CIymer, is anotf- CT man with al remarkable record. Bill wasn't any great guy as a player He reversed the usual order by beginning his professional career in the mai jors and spending the remainder of his life | in the minors. He started with the old Philadelphia Athletics. of the de- funct American Association, in 1891 1 In 1892 he was with Portland, Me. and afterward played in Buffalo, Wilkes barre, Kansas City and Toronto. Bill l has been a minor league pilot since 19oz, when he took charge of the If.ouisvflIe Colone1s, and he has never