The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-07

fsieg Ouei La4q2 the corner LOT E0aGeha1ll
player learns early In his career
which many professional players
seem to have forgotten. is that they
must so into the game to win. The
corner lot ball player may not
4 know very much about team work
I. and he may not know very much
about the fine points OF the game.
1bnt he does want to win and he
wishes for victory SO terribly hard
that he plays with all his might to
4 the finish
When the other fellows are roll
Ing up a big score the am bition Or
the corner lot fellow Is to hold that
score down as low as he c2n He
q never quits dreaming of a big ninth
sinninE rally until the third man Is
4 out.
s sss Jack Miller seems to be that sort
9of player. Although professional
i = q major league he never lets UP
In any game and he never pontH.
no m1ster how disagrceable things
may be. While the baseball world
L has known for a long time how
thoroughly the players are bound
bg contracts the facts never were
gsnSthoruuEhly aired as In the recent
y suit Of the Federal League "A base
ball player lis bound 10 servitude at
40 nHch a season The owner or
his team has the right to sell him
to- an II team he wishes at any time
H6fscourHe the player gets big money
Tor bis serFitude, hut the point Is
that he is In servitude. IT he signs
ssiIp to play In Boston he can he sold
& tasPhtIadelphia lie may want To
ssas Boston win, but he may be-
playing for SO much day for
Phiiadelp f1ta. ,s5
Jack Miller was one Of these I'M
fortunate fellows who had no right
Ssto say who lie would play for. Yet
5afterz he was sold to 4 team he did
not care for q bit he kept OIL play
ing ball andssmade a bigger reputa-
&EfRgatfpn than With the old one.
Miller Is still PLAYING the game
q like he 5ed to play it back on the
corner lots at Kearne,, II. ] !, where
4 ,sRs born in sS6. Miller first
Aplayed professional bal In 1907
home team. The team was
mot strictly a professiona team. as
was not paid q regular salary.
Il The next season he played with the
Atlantic league at Eastou. This
sfPittsburE Pirates saw he vas play
ing good ball and plucked him for
Stheirannual crop of novices.
40 When nj lcr5 RED out with the
'zPtrat ties nls8 pluck caught tn e atten-=
Atio1l3s OF u Hen NNagner Wagner
wanted sto make an 40 leid er Of ALL
;Pittsburg club house That Nag
Il never missed a chance to tell
rs-s7m1ething new about base
sshal speclally@ dlo VA nerE coach
fa4tllergfona PLAYING ~ es#ln posi-
Stfpnssuntil Miller became a crack
ernan For 1lFe years wa e.
snef Aepachedis MI lle 2t 81 teachlnE him
ssFt tine po1nts a ON m MS own long Years
ofexpertence: Mile Tier said n not
ahout.Rhat ne was GONG Do he 81
ayedaa g. on t9s
after5 another Kept Soing e las route
in Tho Pirates camp Wagner vas
son hand#t Goa Miller AZ 70 the
ssfaillnEB OF each 91lllsr tened
and pTnhted som e5mloTe.
11ler#1ad .reae hed
Z his gEfateat sperf &c tt = Sc was
then ~ Years old and 3Nas as steady
PLAYER as could bss5tound Now
l1p#one is SAYING thai Mil lc1'sis the!
finest player n the world or the
finest an the United States or the
finest II any. eague All that is
Eiaimed for Al Ter g. that he PLAYED
sbn11 as hest he could sll the time
sand learned all al & he4coultl allathe
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