Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-04
bAME FORTUNE
REGULAR FLIRT
m BALL WORLD
u,hitted and Club" Perdue,
One Lucky, the Other
Inst "Kicked Around"
|,,,gT 4 BEER FOR PERDUE
|,salIes, Hustler Always on
Ton. Carries Pennants
Around With Him

Ian written about the breaks
MUCH n~s a. baseball and the careers OF
~ Me 49, stars which have reeeNeu
|many ..ss ~ twists by Fate. There Is no
some re,inr example Of what rate car.
Imofe shSnge completely the careers OIL
I 40 ~ ~. than in the cases OF 0eorse
two ~ ~ the Phillics, and 'Hup ter-
,,e 81 the Cardinals
oue' ,,,ch 10 do with making
Fa,e ~ .,,sn of one and just PLAIN,
staishy hail Mayer Of the other' put
&eyryr,tu.ss s,so he well TO mention that luck,
~ fignt ,".,sd siso gameness, make just the
Xplll nus hst,veen a good player ana
d'n feIe' ana whitted has been favored
peol ..,,ts because Of the break ana MS
Ipy tsstllnv flehting disposition
In the early part of 1913 the
starf of the Giants was In poor
pnss,.I ard Manager McGraw cast ms eyes
sar''cd srrd 10 buy one of the stars OF
.soter team which was OUT OF cue ~
p~ roe NOT another pitcher IN the
Ipat Ipete n Inaaue who appealed more to
.N,Ahse,g than Perdue. who had beaten
ss ;s,snts several times earlier IN tue
'r,,.. often been said that the Giants
~. y =. could 20 out and buy star any
r',,,o,, needed one, because winner In
time tass r,nart money for the entire
NV D., ,ha case of Perdue was one
.s.,, unset the dope because manager
s,sninrs absolutely refused to part with
= M .casy. going Southerner'
a McaSaw offered great inducements, but
s,sninvs insisted that Perdue was the
4 ors hlaver on his team who could not oe
1 ,a,rrhased or traded Stallings decision
#tpocked Perdue out OF chance 10 play
s with pennant winner and snare IN tne
vnsla's series money and also prevented
~ fron going to q team that could
i sord 10 nav him larger salary than
HIS was drawing
fss3 season. wnen the Braves started
IN Ilke tail-enders. Perdue was cussing
Xbs. iuck and became a careless, indifer-
ent twirler. He took on. about S pounds
+ ~ .xress weight and was far from. being
~ perdue OF 1913 Hub" just could not
3ssi. ne sense OF wasting his talent on
&naor rail- team. Manager Stallings knew
IN, ,had a team that could be a pennant
cortcndera with the addition Of one or two
hustling youngsters, and tnat Perdue
would never be of much value to the
Braves
perdues disposition was not one that
#vould stand for the constant nagging
"a which Evers subjects all players, and
#6pally things grew so bad that Stallings
.had to get rid of him, and ne was willing
to take almost anything for the player
who was too precious to sell year beofre.
Stalngs had taken a fancy to Whitted,
81 Of the Cardinals, who was in decidedly
81 bad with Higgins because their ideas
did not ! coincIde. Huggins willingly
Il TRADED whitted for Perdue and threw in
<Ftd Gather for good measure. Whitteds
#|N4aa a.. NN.z nA, anNAA IL
Il Ionic to the dsinterested tail-enders,
and they immediately started on the
*spun that resulted in winning the pen
nant and worlds championship.
81 N the meantime Hub" Perdue was
with the Cardinals. VINO We're leading the
league on September 8. when the Braves
Trimmed than four In a row and put them
ont Of the race for good. Incidentally,
X0eofee Whitted broke UP one of the
games on Perdue, and Hub" became
eonylnced tnat the Philly star was his
particular "jinx''
The Braves won the pennant and Whit
tfd got winners share OF the worlds
Ferries spOils. while Perdue got nothing
Last winter Stallings wanted to save
eherwood Magee from the Feds" but TO
~ 50 he had to turn George Whitted
#piff 10 the Phillies. For a time Whitted
eqlked on being sent to the lowly Phils
o1l the Champion Braves, but at last
ne consented. When he arrived In the
saph he looked the Phillies over for a
sle Whitted declared that he had been
pckea on one championship team right
another. Nobody believed him, but
gnl,ted Insisted that the Phillies could
~ tpe pennant IL they hustled.
nstle' should have been Whitted's
,ie name as he is one of the great
~ flers OF the game. He soon proved
-, ne was Pat Moran's greatest asset
Ms!llling that hustling, fighting spirit
~" me Phillies. The result was that
Eender Ps'i''""' eoh-
1l smu1led says: II just know that we
Htp WIN the pennant. I thought SO in
ns spring and am sure OF Il now
ennahts Just follow me around am
~ ongnal good luck man.
rsfoue says: ''An the world Is AGAINST
&% " got kicked off the Braves 10 the
l.. A.rs VINO look like pennant winners
w vnat happens2 The Braves win the
nnaht and this fellow Whitted qets
~ ~ money, This season we looked ike
snp9ll contenders again until had l,,ciS
,tuek The Cards The Phiiiies ioaIoa
hs. nV.nlng until this whitted brought
X.,,se IT, .llek, Yes. sab, they'll win.
ef waited viii get the money again
"a. rnaS VIII l get Annhauser- Is,Isch
~ ~ ai 'here is left in St. Louis