The sun., 1916-08-27

SPEAKER BROUGHT
$400; O'TOOLE
COST A FORTUNE

some real gold among the dross. ~.
Schalk. his great catcher. and iiin,y
Felsch, the Sox centre fielder. Ln,h nna..
In hi nelghborhood Of $50, GOO, ana srs
easily worth II. nv
But the Schalks. Chascs and F,lscbo,
players who graduate from the birba,
minor leagues and retain or better III.
Glass "A standard in the big league.
arc the raritics.
Unknowns the Real stars.
Who are the real stars of the gam.
but the boys who come from soma ns
scure country town and played han 4.
som elittle minor league? \ year am,
one ever heard Of Rodgers Hornsbv M,
his parents. relatives. school chums ana
the Texas League fans. To-day n.
twenty-year-old Cardinal infclder il rsc'
ognized as the greatest young star /,
the National League. "
Two months ago "Mule" Watson Ma,
or tho Cards. had never been heal I'd .,
except In southwest Texas. lie startled
big league fandom about a month ago NO
winning a shutout game from the vr.,,
Alexander. Last week he beat Saliee. i
W We IVIihI'S hc IN dflOlItf El Walsh
he IL acting like one.
Seventeen years ago "A name, "Na,bs~.
son." appeared I'M a Giant box scors
The papers said "a wild semi.pro finished
the game" New York never gave Me,,v
"A tumble then. lie was sent back 10
Norfolk, I'M the Reds drafted him. Then
the Giants thought may be there was
something TO this Ma,hewson after ali
n got him back In a trade for Rusic.
Did anything luckier ever happen 10
ball club? Imagine II club letting "A man
like Ma,hewson go. and then getting him
back before the other club had a chanrs
TO try him and see what IA find 1t had on
its hands.
Here's where Luck Fissred.
You often hear the question VIVA,
ails the Giants" They are dropptn,
away for the loss of "A Matnrwson. Can
any one say how many OF his Ave pen.
nants McGraw would have won had Gin.
cinnaii kept Matty in 1901? How many
Of his six pennants would Connie Mack
have won had the young Gettysburg col.
leg!nn. Plank. turned out to be a iiassel.
bacher, the lean skinny indian from
Carlisle Uiender) a baseball Thorpe. and
the tall youth from Colby II CruwrIl'
TsltNfl years ago, IL name 'pt0
started TO appear in the Detroit l.uelp.
A Detroit fan might have asked sam
Crawford. BIZ Donovan or some other
old Tiger. who's this Cobb?' The an.
swcr would have been, "Oh some fresh
kid they picked up somewhere down
South. who thinks lie can hit. We got
10 lick i'm In the clubhouse every day 10
tone him down.
Yes. Cobb brought the grand sum ri
500 when the Augusta club sold him
TO Detroit. Any other club could have
had him for $3.50. They say Clark
Griffith, then managing the Yankees.
could have had Ty in IL trade for som
mediocre player. whose name | have
forgotten. Giving Jennings, Donovan,
Crawford, Mullen and the old Tigers
full credit, Detroit never would have
won a pcnnant without Ty, when a
team picks UP a player like Cobb 1t .
luck.
sox Paid s4OO fo Speaker.
WHO ever heard of iris Speaker until
he began To startle American Learse
sandcm IN 1903? iris was "a star IL ;u
p, Texas League. and went 40 good that
Boston purchased his release from.
Huston for the Inunifcent sun - Si0o
~ ltt W. wv ~ .F
1907. and IN 1905 he was sent -
Mickey Finn Of Little Rock. VIII the
| privilege 10 buy HIM back fur sir9.
Speaker then burned up the southern
Association. Several clubs were after
him. u Finn, who hadn't even "A WIT.
ten agreement with Boston. stuck 10 MI.
ccntl"mau's agreement, u let Boston
bug HIM back for 500.
VINO ever heard Of Waiter Johnson
Until no came TO the taileud Washing
tons in the fan Of 1907 "a youngs'er
with terrific speed. who annoyed ne
veteran Washington tstckst0-s hecs lsr
they couldn't hold any such cannon
balls? one of the few who tearf o'
this semirro marvel of Wei~er, Idaho,
was Fred Clarke. then manager - ics.
burg. The Weiser manager begged
Clarke To give Walter II trial. hut i1t.s'
burg wouldn't even send tra.r FAR" Tnev
couldn't Ice bothered VITA bug way out
IN Idaho. Joe Cautilluu uf Washington
then agreed TO take walter on. and
every one knows the result i|i to'
luck play right into the WASH sioi
clubs hands!
Alexander Obtained by Draft.
Grover Cleveland Alexander wor
twenty-nine games and lost fourteen foi
the Syracuse New York state League IN
1910. the Indianapolis club har'na
farmed him to Syracuse. several SCOUT
looked Alec over, aud any one could
have bought him for 81 00u hut NO oNt
did. The lucky Phillirs ru, N "a dr'f