Evening journal., 1915-05-26
YOUNG FED STARS
developing FAST
Impressive Feature About
Outlaws, Chief Bender
Says
KAUFF CASE
PROVES THE POINT

zone Of the most impressive points
about the Federal League" declared
Chief Bender, "is the clever, II ex-
pensivo. arrangement for the develop
ment of young players" Drawn into
discussion of baseball recently, by
eager fans. the pitching genius Of the
Baltimore Terrapins, frankly COM
pared the three big leagues. With
out harshly criticizing any Of organ
lied balls higher powers, Bender de-
tailed weaknesses in the old aystem.
picked flaws in the Federals. and
commented on the sped with which
the independent league has advanced
in the national game.
81 have not been In the league long
enough TO detail all the Names" said
the chief but the stars of the Feds
are steadily rising to a point demand
/ ing the attention of the fans. There
is not a team in the league that has
not at least one positive star of prac-
tically its own development, and no
matter how forceful the attempt may
| be to keep these players from the
prominence in the public eye which
their talent merits, the fans will find
them out.
The l<auff case was OF great value
! to the new league, and not alone be-
cause of the extensive publicity given
to-that player. Skeptics who first
broke down the old barrier of habit
and went TO see Federal league base
ball for the first time, discovered that
Kauff was one among many playing
stars Baltimore has a young out
fielder who is rapidly approaching
greatness.
Duke Duncan is the youth. and
had rather watch him at bat from
some position other than the mound.
Rousch, of Newark is another out
fielder capable of fitting into an all
star cast in any company Anderson,
of Brooklyn. from the little l have
seen and the much | nave heard,
seems TO be developing into a truly
wonderful left fielder. Chicago has a
brilliant left handed set of young out
helders, with Leslie Mann, as an
emergency worker, and so II goes all
along the line.
THE American League had a some
what similar experience but the Feds
have advanced much faster than the
teams which were loaded down with
} veterans in the first three or -four
years of the American league In
playing equipment and grounds the
assets of the Federal League shame
the Americans of other daye. There
was not a park in the Johnson circuit
TO compare with the modern plants
provided by the Federal League.
THE Federal League teams have
not played together long enough "a
get machine-like precision, but the
individual color. which has been
d given to the games is a great thing
p for the league. BY the time the
teams reach the highest point I'm in
side stuff. the fans will have put the
? personal side of each cog in the ma
! chine well established in mind. and
? thereby feel that touch of friendly
interest so necessary 10 keep the
. game and its players uppermost ir
e. their attention.
2 "Mcst of the cold dignity which
separated players and magnates wa,
knocked down when the Feds frs
= demonstrated that they we're in earn
- est Players who had their haggag,
? carried by A. b. magnates durinl
$ the winter of 1913 and 1914, and dis
S covered for the first time the deeI
;. interest Of club owners in their vel
p fare have much to thank the Fed
r for.
- "rhc Federal League isn't perfec
and In one department the old crow,
?, still leads refer to the politics. /
j. you would call It such. of the game
s Take the Kauif case as a notable ant
Y recent example. In this kind of baso
b ball the old cotorie still plays tn
u best game. On the field the Fed
are coming so fast that they canno
be denied a place at the ton"