New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-05
Gives Demaree, Stock and
Adams for Third
BaSeman.
STAR OF PHILLIES
A REAL VETERAN
Newcomer Not Absolutely Ger
tain of Place, but Trade Is
Good for Team.
By HEYWOOD BROUN.

John NcCraw went 20 market ycster-
6av and came h8Ck with Hans LoOerL
The Philadelphia National League clun
win get Al Dcmarce. Milton stock and
John Adams BOO exchange for the third
Base star. 1857 Che deal McGraw plugs
mole through which many a victory
.r,rncd last season. Ever since the
5cparturc of TEc Shafcr third base
has been "a problem for the Giants.
IL is refreshing 90 note that for once
there is no necessity of remarSlng that
the veteran must ever give place 10 the
vounrster. Youth received no service
here. L0bori is the dean Of the third
hascmcn OF ,hc National League, and
stock is one of the Youngest
Al Dcmarec was "a winning pitcher
in 1913. but losing one last year
when he captured only ten vctorle
cut OF the twcr,v-seven for which ne
was held responsible.
Adams is catcher who was pur-
chased from the Now Orleans CLUB al
thc close OF last season. lie has been
Giant without ever having chance
t0 rut on the uniform Of the club.
In 1876 games last season Lobert mt
ion .Z-5. which is twelve points higher
shan the mark made by Stock, but two
below the average Of Eddie Grant.
Iobcrt is much faster on the base
then Grant. and far more aggressive.
It is true. OF course, that the newcomer
is not absolutely certain Of making q
place as "a regular ON the team, but he
is certainly thc fayorite for the posi-
zion.
Wilmington was the birthplace O.
Iobert. but his early baseball expert
once was obtained iu Pittsburgh. where
hc PLAYED on o number of amateur and
sou.- professional teams. Fred Clarke
signed him for the Pirates in 1903 and
'1cu shipped him on 10 Des Moines the
tevt season JohnstOwu OF the out
law Tri-Statc League claimed the
riavcr in 1905, but On the following
.esson he went go the Cincinnati Reds.
For year Lohcrt was only utility
man. and though he earned place as
81 REGULAR in 1907 ne was back on the
bench IN 1905. Clark Griffith succeed
,d John Camel In 1909 and hustled
Hans back into the lineup, where he
remained until 1911, when he was
traded 20 the Philadelphia club with
Reebe Rowan and Paskert for McQuI-
len. Morcu. Grant and Bates.
Somewhat above the age IN Wnlch
baseball players usually sno" theT
best form, Lobert surprised the lanS
of PHILADELPHIA by growing better and
letter Iobert has been called the
.Tftt1e Hans Wagner" because he re-
eorblcs the big German somewhat m
build and feature Seemingly both
Tcutons are similar also in their aoll-
lfv 20 trample tle traditions OF time.
Rioters will regret the passing Of
Al Deuaree. for he was a pitcher OF
exceeding wisdom. lie came up from
the bushes late IN life, speaking from
a baseball standpoint, OF course, and
his CONTINENT of speed and OF curves
was limited. Even his motion was all
wrong. involving. as IL did, much use OF
the ann and elbow and little OF the
back and shoulders.
The curve he threw was the wide
roundhouso of the sand lots, and yet
this young man who mad so httle, ana
much of that wrong, went through the
teams OF the National League IN 1913
as though he were a Walter Johnson
or Grover Cleveland Alexander
Demaree, he had brsins.
Hans Lobert has been around the
world. but McGraw signed him because
be has been around the bases in is 40
seconds.
Elmer Hickory Johnson, catcher.
signed O. contract for one year with
thc Giants yesterday.
Jim Cafncy and George Stallings
have selected the unfortunates who
are 10 20 to Philadelphia in exchange
for Sherwood Magee. Whitfield, out
fielder, and Tom Hughes, pitcher, are
the luckless ones.
The lawyers Of Frank Farrell and
the allied purchasers Of the Yankees
put in a long day yesterday arranging
this and that about the purchase Of
the Yankees. The formal transfer OF
the stock VIII probably be made this
morning.
There's no telling where wild Bill"
Donovan will finish with his Yankees,
but he is sure 60 have a good season.
Joe Lannin, owner of the Red Sox. an
nounced yesterday that he would have
"a Donovan Day 40 Fenway Park, ana
other club owners viii follow SUIT
When "Wild Biil' takes stock at the
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