Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-31
WILLIAM CCHUCK") WORKMAN
WORKMAN, CUBS EXPENSIVE
SHORTSTOP, ONLY PROSPECT
OPINION OF HARRY DAVIS
"Chuck" Is Smooth Fielder, but Athletics Captain
Thinks He Never Will Be Star Batsman.
Other Baseball Comment
By CHANDLER d. RICHTER

/ short left-feld fence in Chicago last season.
and perhaps Tinker believes that he will be
able to repeat when playing regularly on
Weeghmans small field.
1t is announced that Joe Kelly, re-
Gently purchased from indianapolis, will be
given regular position. Kelly was with
Pittsburgh two years ago, but after a sem
satonal minor league career proved fall
ure, not being able to hit major league
pitching. He was sent to- Indianapolis
where he attracted attention by his great
slugging II remains to be seen whether he
will make good on this attempt. He has
great task before him, as Schultz was one
Of the few National Leaguers who were
hitting more than 800.
Braves Are 0verrated
Cy Sanborn, the veteran baseball writer
OF the Chicago Tribune, who is here with
the cubs, declares that the Braves are over
rated and that Stallings' team is slowing
down. Other scribes with the Cubs and
members of TinlSer's team agree with San.
born. The Cubs were beaten three out of
four games In Boston prior to coming here
but Sanborn says that the Braves had
nothing but pitching and really were lucky
they were not beaten three of the four
games played.
The veteran scribe believes that the
Braves have too many players who have
passed their hey-day and that the team will
go TO pieces In the closing days of the race
He points out that Magee Konetchy Evers
and Snodgrass have been in the game for
years and cannot be expected to improve
any, while Smith seems to have slowed
down. Stallings also has three or four vet
eran pitchers who are likely to crack at any
time and who are not capable of working
out of turn. which may be necessary when
the team Is forced to play string of dou-
ble-headers.
stallings's team must have slxlddAd badly
since the last series in this city with the
PhillleS when IL tOOlS ont Of R,,.
games from the champions by playing bril-
liant ball In all departments. 1t looked like
the best team in the league during that
series. There must be grounds for the re.
port, however, as several Pittsburgh play
ers also declared that the Braves were
gradually slowing down and that the pitch
Ing stan could not carry the team much
longer.
William ("I<id") Mailing who was the
last left-handed infielder to play with a
major or Glass IA league team, died at
Newark. N. j. on Friday. after brief i'll
ness. Mailing was one OF the few left
handed throwers who ever held down an
infeld position on a major league team,
and he did not last long. Billy Hulen who
played shortstop for the Philles for several
seasons in the '90s. lasted longer in the
major leagues than Mailing, but the latter
was really the greatest left-handed nfielder
the game has produced
If Mailing could have batted as well as
Hulen he probably would have spent about
10 or ~ years in the major agues as he
was better fielder. His stick-work, how
ever, was so poor that he was released by
Louisville in 1897 after brief trial NAH
ling also was a shortstop and after brief
career in the National League played for
is years with minor league teams the ma
Jority OF his career being spent in the Pa
cific Coast League with Oakland. Left
handed first basemen are common, but
AMaAN 81.
paws who could play other infield positions
and do 1t well, though Hal Chase once
played brilliant ball at second base for the
Yankees for a few months.