Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-08-10
HERE'S ALL ABOUT
THE DODGER TEAM
When and Where They
Were Born Told by
Dopester Lanigan
AVERAGE AGE
ABOUT 70 YEARS

Rrooklyn's superbas, who are play
me real CLASSY ball this year and who
threaten to do the unexpected and win
the National League pennant, are
goung crowd. only four men having
reached tn. SO-year mark. The aver
age age Of the players on the Robin
SON MANAGED and Mckeever
owned team is about &c years. John
Wesley Coombs. one Of baseDalls
most notable comebacks, is the senior
pIaver in the inks Of the Robins and
Il due on November Is to celebrate
his thirty-second birthday. q.
Napoleon Rucker will be 81 Septem-
Der 30 Captain Jacob c. Dauoert
and Jack-of-All Trades John 70. Hum
nell passed their thirtieth milestones
this year. and Ivan NJ. Olson. another
nnderstudy. will be 30 before the big
Football games are played.
The baby member Of the Robinson
eauad is inhelder Joe Shultz, who
was a spring sensation and whose
work in the last two months has been
seriously handicapped by a lame arm.
He was % last month. Edward Sam
uel Appleton. by a process OF tgur-
ing. can be rated as the youngest OF
ali the Robins, since he only has a
birthday every four years. He was
born on February %, 1892, and has
lad lust fve birthdays.
Charles Hercules Ebbets president
OF the Brooklyn club. now is So. and
ii won't be long before he Is ST. Man
ager Wilbert Robinson celebrated
his ffty-hrst birthday in June.
Each Of Catchers 26 Years.
Each of the Brooklyn catchers-
Lew McCarty and Otto Miller-is "a
years old but the frst-named VIII
Be- n before the year Is out.
of the other pitchers Wheezer Del
"a on his way to his twenty-seventh
Phil Douglas on his way to his TWEEN
fy-sixth. Sherrod Smith on his way
10 his twenty-hfth and I'd. Appleton
On his way TO his twenty-fourth.
OF the other inhelders George Cut
shaw was 2S about 10 days ago, an'
this week Gus Getz reached the 26
year mark Ollie OMara was % II
March.
The average age of the outhelder
Ia 26. Wheat being o. Myers 26 an
STENCIL 25 Not a single man in tn
Robinson squad was born on that al
fpeed luckless date-the 13th-bu
one reached this sphere on a skiddo
DAY. Wheat's being May %.
Coombs was born in 1888. Rucke
in 1884. Hummel Daubert and Olso
in 1885. Dell and Cutshaw in 1885,
Wheat and McCarty in 1888, Pfeffel
Myers Miller and Getz in 1889. Doug
las and stengel in 1890. Smith in 1891
Appleton and O'Mara in 1892 an
Schultz in 1898 None of the Super
has was born in January. two hay
ing their birthdays in February, tw
IN March, two in April. two in Ma,
three in June, three in July. one /
August. one in September, one in OC
tober and two in November.
No Native on the Team.
Ebbets and McKeever aren't pa!
ing salaries this year to sing
native son. neither are they distriou
ing stipends 10 any athletes WI
were born on foreign soil. VIII
Zimmerman. now back in the bushe
first saw the light of day in kenge
Germany. and Leon Galore. az pre-
ent in Montreal. is believed to ha'
been born somewhere within the co
fines OF the Empire State.
A majority of the Superbas a
westerners, the south having almo
as many representatives on the p
betts-McKeever roster as the ea'
The Pennsylvanians among the r
bins are Schultz and Getz. born
Pittsburgh; Hummel. in Rl-otlstGr
Daubert in Llewellyn. and McCar
in Milton The show-me State
Missouri shows up with four al
letes Olson and StCngel. born
Kansas City; Wheat in Kingston. a
O'Mara In 81. Louis.
Three Men From Georgia.
Georgia contributes three men
pitchers-to the Brooklyn club. tn
are southpaws Rucker and Smi
born respectively. in Alpharetta a
Mansfield. and Highlander Doug
IN Cedartown. The Illini among
Robins are Pfeffer. born in SeymC
and Cutshaw. in Wilmington. Hi \
ers. who is rapidly becoming the b
outhelder in the National League.
native of East Liverpool. Oh
Otto Miller was born in Hendon, Ne