El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-24

lot about is Rousch, of Newark, VINO
was once owned by Comiskey, Of the
his minor league days but McCIraW
had one Of his scouts look at MN one
time and was informed that the player
had a bad arm. It seems that ROuSch
had injured his natural throwing arm
and was trying to learn to throw with
the other McGraw passed him up and
ne was bought by COmiskey- His bad
arm probably kept him from making
good with the Sox then. and when
COmiskey tried to farm him out Rousch
went TO the Feds
FIack Is Best.
His arm seems to be good enough
for all purposes now It's no owen
Wilson or Jack Murray arm. but II
good enough It's a sort OF 'GaVVy
Cravath arm Rousch would help al
most any big league club that needs
outfieIders- Kauff, TObin and ROusch,
or Cooper, would make swell set or
fellow I'd rather have than any OF
them on my club for Outfield duty IS
a bird I haven't mentioned at an
That's Flack. of Chicago. There's
baseball player You take kauft ana
the resr-I choose Flack-
The quality of players such as TN
ker. knabe. Arthur Wilson, PtanA-
RueIbach. Rariden. SeatOn, Miner
Brown and other former American and
National leaguers that you hear the
Fed followers talking about, Is gener-
ally known among baseball men. some
of them have shown Improvement over
their organized ball form. and others
have gone back Eddie Plank had 2
great year-and. in fact, 1 can't recall
that Eddie ever did have a real bad
year / can't recall a single piece OF
bad pitching by Plank in ten years,
but Eddie is pretty well along now.
no matter how much he showed last
season
@Rariden. always q smart receiver.
II hi ha he
Braves Knabe would undoubtedly
strengthen the Phillies II he returns
there, as they are weak AT second
base and Tinker may help the Cubs
if he is able 10 play again, but both
Knabe and Tinker are in the veteran
class. Hal Chase had a great year At
Buffalo. but I don't know manager
in either big league that would care
to do much experimenting with the
temperamental Hal Arthur Wilson i'm
proved over his Giant form. and is
good catcher and a very high class
fellow generally, but easily injured.
Rough on OIdsters-
"Seaton had bad year, but might
come back Miner Brown had a GOOD
year, but Brown is another veteran
who is bound TO be more or less OF a
speculation. There are q number OF
youngsters who were developed by the
Feds since the organization of the
league who may help the clubs that
get them, but there are only a few Of
the vets that managers will care 70
/ bother with.
You must remember that since the
organization of the Feds. American
and National managers have been de-
velOping youngsters to take the places
Of the men who jumped their teams,
and these youngsters have Just com
menced to attain the height Of their
big league ability Does any one
think, for instance, that Pat Moran
would displace young Bancroft to
Nike is q great shortfielder, too
The young and promising players
in the Feds win profit by peace, but
the old boys are going to suffer, and
that's a cinch- There are a lot of play
ers in the new league that organized
baseball managers wouldn't have as
gifts. and they will sink back to the
minors without any great furry"